CJC 4410 Exam I Study Guide Chapters 1 4 Chapter I Correctional Counseling helping people who are troubled in one way or another and in most cases in trouble Timing unsuccessful without communication lifeblood of relation Good Communication not automatic either constructive or destructive Must be skilled in listening interpreting and expressing oneself Storytelling another name for counseling story listening allowing us to experience ourselves others in a more personal and dynamic context Motivational Interviewing client centered directive method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence focus on clients hopes and concerns at the present Change Talk personal self motivated statements Effective Risking a skill or an ability that the counselor attempts to impart to his or her client Therapeutic Intention Outcome counselor focus s on putting his or her good intentions into action through modeling empathy and genuine Therapeutic Relationship sustains offenders during times when life is discouraging Professional Humility letting go of 3 things need to be in control need to be effective need to be right Method for staying grounded w successes and failures Community Based Counselors probation parole professionals half way house counselors case managers for drug courts mental health courts probation and parole officer w special caseloads treatment vs security counseling dilemma of ensuring public safety while attempting to develop meaningful relationships with client Institutional Counselors intake assessment staff institutional parole officers psychologists psychiatrists social workers court case managers chaplains monitor assess adjustment problems assess risk and needs administer institutional custody assessments develop recommend interventions Educational specialist works w inmates concerning education Recreational Programs offer district advantages over other treatment programs sports arts crafts music table games Counseling and case management functions and functions and process provide a cohesiveness that enables institutional and other pragmatic activities to run as smoothly as possible Psychotherapy option other than correctional counseling trained at a masters level of expertise Meta analysis one of the most respected evaluation methodologies utilizes the statistical technique affords an opportunity to summarize results across many studies creates a summary statistic that gauges the effectiveness of all or specific types of program modalities Chapter 2 Counseling Principles methods of which counselors use to conduct their work don t always end up successful Resistance to treatment situation where client resists treatment Ethical Dilemma issue that presents itself on the basis of what is ethically right or wrong Contextual Demands paperwork job duties required for the position Collaborative Relationship must be present between counselors and client for intervention to be successful Interpersonal Boundaries invisible line separating individuals according to their needs feelings emotional health privacy concerns other human issues here and now style way of thinking that supports maintains an offender antisocial behavior Group counseling preferred modality for providing offender treatment offer offenders a wealth of info create external feedback mechanism offenders challenging each other Collateral Info Necessary when treating offenders offenders behavior in his or her housing unit classroom work area or elsewhere Cognitive Behavior Intervention have some efficacy for reducing criminal risk recidivism several therapies rational emotive rational behavior rational cognitive therapies Criminal personality criminal lifestyle emphasize the identification and amelioration of reccurent and pervasive criminal thinking patterns Thinking Errors 52 described by Yochelson Somenow which uncovered in case studies eventually consolidated into 8 interactive criminal thinking patterns cognitive distinctions employed by offenders to justify their offending 8 Criminal Thinking Patterns Mollification The blaming game Cutoff I feel nothing Entitlement I should get what I want Power Orientation Im in charge Sentimentality Look at me being good Superoptimism I can get by with anything Cognitive Indolence That s too much work Discontinuity I talk one way and act another Power and control tactics dirty dozen specific types of resistance counselors face from clients Power struggle counterproductive inequality between counselor client Three r s of offender resistance Redirection reframing reversal of responsibility Positive Peer Culture method for dealing w juvenile offenders Treatment vs security competing interests of the offender and institution job duty of custody and security while assuming role as counselor friend Dual or multiple relationships when counselors must perform task unrelated to treatment search for contraband Suicide Prevention counselors need to realize they cannot be all things to all people Ethnocentrism judging people on the basis of one s own beliefs rather than those of others Stereotype judge people based on assumed group characteristics rather than to see them and react to them as individuals Cross cultural or multicultural counseling more racially and ethnically sensitive approach aims at broadening and deepening knowledge understanding racially ethnically diverse groups so they can appreciate where these individuals are coming from and begin to see them as individuals Special Needs offenders Make up a large number of caseloads present unique treatment needs challenges for counselors Crisis intervention helping inmates manage incipient crises Burnout prevention preventing counselor from loosing focus interest in their work job duties deleterious physical emotional effects Ten commandments for prison staff prevent burnout in prison life Chapter 3 Psychoanalytic Therapy theory of he human mind that focus on unconscious conscious thoughts desires seeks to minimize effects of unconscious ideas on our behavior by making us aware of them developed by Sigmund Freud 19th century Sigmund Freud all behavior is motivated dev Psychoanalytic theory Principle of psychic determinism all behavior is motivated regardless of the task Three components of personality Id superego ego Id wishes possessed early in life simple primitive unorganized often aggressive usually become unconscious Basic drives food warmth flight fight Superego wishes we take over or