CJC 4410 Exam III Study Guide Chapter 9 Activating Experience when an individual experiences an unpleasant experience a rejection seeks to assess how the client makes sense of this experience Aggression Replacement Training RAT All Or Nothing thinking things are viewed as black or white a less than perfect performance is a failure Anger Control Training ACT a cognitive behavioral approach to teaching juvenile and adult offenders skills for controlling anger part of Aggression Replacement Training ART Aggression Replacement Training ART a cognitive behavior program consisting of skill streaming anger control training and moral education gorups Catastrophizing Cognitive behavioral approaches recognize that cognitions as well as behaviors are learned and behavior is prompted supported mediated and reinforced by cognitions Cognitive restructuring interventions endeavor to change the content of beliefs values and attitudes Cognitive skills interventions seek to improve cognitive processes the structure and form of reasoning rather than its content Conventional reasoning stage 3 moral reasoning is internally motivated by loyalty to other people and by a desire to live up to what is expected by significant others Stage 4 decisions reflect desire to maintain such social institutions as the family the community and the country as social systems Criminal personality groups correct criminal thinking errors serve to support excuse and sometimes reinforce criminal behavior Disqualifying the positive positive experiences are re labeled as not counting for one reason or another Gender responsive programming initiatives under way which state that correctional programs for women should target the risk factors that more accurately describe women s pathways to crime Irrational belief pt feels anxiety depression worthlessness or hostility as a consequence Decrease happiness and maximize pain Often times are distorted perceptions of the activating event Jumping to conclusions individuals assume that they know what another person is thinking but fail to check with that person Living skills programs for adult and juvenile offenders to aid in their lacking of skills with effective social adaption Magnification individuals exaggerate the importance of something therefore label themselves and end up creating irrational emotions Mental filter individuals dwell on negative details and filter out the positive aspects Modeling involves the facilitators or others demonstrating behaviors and thoughts so that clients might imitate them Moral education programs assume that growth in moral judgment is most likely to occur when an individual interacts with prosocial environmental factors that encourage growth Moral dilemmas are exposed to participants during moral education programs Overgeneralization one negative event is seen as a never ending pattern of defeat Physiological clues clues that alert individuals to their feelings of anger tense jaw flushed face etc Rational belief part of the healthy thought sequence following the irrational belief stage emotional states of rejection disappointment and annoyance Increase positive feelings and decrease pain Rational emotive therapy a model designed for general use focus on criminal thinking errors an approach designed specifically for offenders Concerned with emotions and thoughts that impair our existence Reducers means for helping reduce anger levels visualization of peaceful scenes Role playing involves practicing new behaviors roles in the counseling center before trying these behaviors in other situations Self instructural training teaches clients how to talk themselves through difficult situations Self talk when clients talk themselves through difficult situations Self statements technique for dealing with anger designed to lower anger arousal chill out Shoulding individuals try to motivate themselves by saying I must or I ought and so feel guilty when they do not Skill streaming teaches a wide range of social skills through a social learning approach part of Aggression Replacement Training ART Social learning behavior is learned through role playing and modeling Stages of moral judgment Lawrence Kohlberg s form a cognitive developmental classification system that classifies individuals according to the ways in which they think about justice fairness and right courses of action Preconventional reasoning two stages 1 moral decision involving blind obedience to authority in order to avoid punishment 2 a right course of action at this stage is predicted upon such instrumental considerations as the avoidance of punishment and furtherance of ones own interest Postconventiinal reasoning stage 5 moral reasoning adheres to the utilitarian notion of social contract or the need to weigh certain rights values and legal principles against the greatest good for the greatest number of people Stage 6 such ethical principles of justice as the right to life and respect for the dignity of other persons as ends rather than means are used to generate moral decisions Stress inoculation training similar to self instructional training except clients are instructed t encourage and reinforce themselves I know how to handle this while engaging in the self talk pertinent to coping skills stinking thinking irrational thought processes term coined by AA usually all or nothing thinking Thinking errors thoughts that support antisocial behavior Chapter 10 Behavioral and social models Boundaries a target of structural family therapy dictate the roles of members and the terms of their participation Communications therapy work from a systems perspective believe they cannot understand family interactions until they understand the family s role patterns stability levels of communication and governing processes Double Blind conveying one though verbally and the opposite non verbally Disengaged boundaries when an individual appears oblivious to the effects of their behaviors on other members Dyads Enmeshed system displays a high degree of support interdependence warmth affection or quasi affection and control too much boundaries are not clear Family structure the stable and enduring interactions that occur in family settings Family system is reliant on family members participating in the change process for the troubled family member Family therapy asserts individuals cannot be understood apart from their interactions with group social and cultural forces in their environment Homeostasis balanced