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Correctional Counseling: A Cognitive Growth Perspective

Author(s): Key Sun, PhD, MSW, Central Washington University
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763741143
  • ISBN-10:0763741140
  • Paperback    206 pages      © 2008
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Correctional Counseling: A Cognitive Growth Perspective shows students how to address a correctional client’s needs during imprisonment and how to prepare clients for release into the community. Using the cognitive growth model to examine the major issues in correctional counseling, this text covers the counselor roles, work settings and challenges, offender classification and assessment, counseling processes, and intervention/therapeutic techniques. Students learn to respond effectively to correctional clients not only by taking their crimes and experiences into account, but also by looking at how offenders view themselves and their actions.

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  • Includes chapter summaries and discussion questions to help students retain key information
  • Provides key terms to help students become more familiar with the language they will encounter in correctional counseling
  • Includes chapters dedicate to mentally disordered offenders, anger management, and group counseling
  • Contains comprehensive coverage of criminological theories and their relevance to correctional counseling
  • Contains research-based chapters on the psychological models and advances in interpersonal cognitive research as they related to correctional counseling

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Chapter 1: Correctional Counselors: Roles, Work Environments, Conflicts, and Challenges
Chapter 2: Offender Classification and Assessment
Chapter 3: The Goal of Correctional Counseling
Chapter 4: Criminological Theories and Their Relevance to Correctional Counseling
Chapter 5: Psychological Models in Correctional Counseling
Chapter 6: Advances in Interpersonal Cognitive Research and the Implications for Correctional Counseling
Chapter 7: Counseling Processes
Chapter 8: Group Counseling in Corrections
Chapter 9: Anger Management
Chapter 10: Mentally Disordered Offenders in Corrections
Chapter 11: Overcoming Prejudice and Promoting Diversity


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Key Sun, PhD, MSW-Central Washington University

Key Sun is professor of law and justice at Central Washington University. He previously worked as a correctional mental health counselor at Washington State Department of Corrections. He received PhD and MA in psychology from Rutgers University, where he also received a master degree in criminal justice. In addition, he has a Bachelor of Law degree from Beijing University and a Master of Social Work degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests involve examining mental health and criminal justice issues from a multidisciplinary perspective, integrating psychology, criminal justice, social work, and cross-cultural approaches. His publications have appeared in psychological and criminal justice journals and textbooks.

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  • Correctional Counseling
  • Offender Rehabilitation
  • Community Corrections
  • Probation and Parole
  • Special Topics in Corrections
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