Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation

By
  • Patricia Van Voorhis, Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati
  • Emily Salisbury, Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Portland State University

This text presents foundations of correctional intervention, including overviews of the major systems of therapeutic intervention, diagnosis of mental illness, and correctional assessment and classification. Its detailed descriptions and cross-approach comparisons can help professionals better determine which of several techniques might be especially useful in their particular setting.

Paperback, 420 Pages

Published: February 2013

Imprint: Anderson Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-4557-3008-7

Contents

  • Preface

    Part One: A Professional Framework for Correctional Counseling

    Chapter 1: The Process of Correctional Counseling and Treatment

    Chapter 2: Understanding the Special Challenges Faced by the Correctional Counselor in the Prison Setting

    Part Two: Historical Foundations of Correctional Counseling and Treatment

    Chapter 3: Psychoanalytic Therapy

    Chapter 4: Radical Behavioral Interventions

    Chapter 5: Early Approaches to Group and Milieu Therapy

    Part Three: Offender Assessment, Diagnosis, and Classification

    Chapter 6: Diagnosis and Assessment of Criminal Offenders

    Chapter 7: An Overview of Offender Classification Systems

    Part Four: Contemporary Approaches to Correctional Counseling and Treatment

    Chapter 8: Social Learning Models

    Chapter 9: Cognitive Therapies

    Chapter 10: Family Therapy

    Part Five: Interventions for Special Populations

    Chapter 11: Treating Sexual Offenders

    Chapter 12: Treating Substance Abuse in Offender Populations

    Chapter 13: Treating Severely Antisocial Offenders

    Chapter 14: Treating Women Offenders

    Part Six: Putting it all Together in Correctional Policy and at the Desk

    Chapter 15: Correctional Treatment: Accomplishments and Realities 

    Chapter 16: Case Planning and Case Management

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