Correctional Counseling ─ A Cognitive Growth Perspective

Sun (law and justice, Central Washington U.) presents an interdisciplinary approach to providing counseling in a correctional context. He makes the case for why we need correction counseling and key competencies. Chapter topics include offender classification and assessment, anger-management, criminological and psychological theories for correctional counselors, overcoming prejudice, group counseling, and the implications of cognitive research for the correctional counselor. This second edition includes new chapters on substance abuse and restorative justice; updated crime statistics; and new discussions about evidence-based treatment in a correctional context, art therapy, gender sensitivity, and social-cognitive vs. biomedical explanations for mental illness. It's written for use in a class and each chapter includes summary, key-term, and discussion/question sub-sections. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)