Anti-Social Peers
Author: Carey Group/Johncox
Motivating offenders to give up their anti-social friends is very difficult. Anti-Social Peers provide corrections professionals with activities to help clients develop the self-awareness and understanding offenders need to give up their anti-social friends. This Guide starts clients on this journey.
ISBN: 978-1-934836-03-3
Publication date: March 2008
Available for Purchase: July 1,
2008
Price: $9.95
Anti-Social Thinking
Author: Jane Johncox
Assisting clients in examining their anti-social thinking and values is a difficult task because these are abstract concepts. In general high-risk clients tend to be very concrete thinkers. Anti-Social Thinking provides a basic understanding of the topic and specific strategies and 15 Minute Tools for the Corrections Professionals:
- To help assess their clients’ anti-social thinking and core values/beliefs
- That provide a framework for clients to increase their awareness of their thinking patterns
- To aid clients to see how anti-social thinking and core values/beliefs impact their behavior
Anti-Social Thinking provides practical activities that help clients understand these complex ideas.
ISBN: 978-1-934836-04-0
Publication date: March 2008
Available for Purchase: July 1,
2008
Price: $9.95
Co-Occurring Illness
Author: Malinda Lamb, Ph.D.
Clients with mental health disorders and clients with substance abuse disorders are difficult for correctional professionals to work with. It is made even more difficult when clients have both mental health and substance abuse disorders (co-occurring disorders). Co-Occurring Illness provides simple tools to enhance the corrections professional’s ability to interact, develop and refine a plan of action that can be utilized during meetings. The tools help the corrections professional collect accurate and up to date information and identify methods to increase the ability of the client to successfully complete their involvement with the criminal justice system.
ISBN: 978-1-934836-05-7
Publication date: March 2008
Available for Purchase: July 1,
2008
Price: $9.95
Impaired Driving
Author: Marilyn Stein
Most DUI/DWI Offenders have driven after using substances numerous times without “being caught.” Often the combined behaviors of driving and using substances is deeply embedded in the offender’s life to the point that is has become normalized. Impaired Driving provides the corrections professional with an EBP activity to encourage the offender to examine their patterns of behavior that lead to driving under the influence of substances.
ISBN: 978-1-934836-06-4
Publication date: March 2008
Available for Purchase: July 1,
2008
Price: $9.95
Empathy
Author: Michael Bacula
Empathy is based on an inverse relationship between empathy and anti-social behavior – as empathy increases, anti-social behavior decreases. Learning to understand and appreciate the feelings of others can offset self-centered thinking that supports tendencies to blame the victim, deny responsibility, and underestimate the effects of criminal behavior. Empathy gives the corrections professional strategies and practical activities to help an offender increase his or her degree of empathy on a cognitive and emotional level and thus move towards becoming contributing citizens.
ISBN: 978-1-934836-07-1
Publication date: March 2008
Available for Purchase: July 1,
2008
Price: $9.95 |