Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation

Emily J. Salisbury, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Utah Criminal Justice Center at the University of Utah College of Social Work. She is trained as an applied criminologist and focuses her research on the science of correctional treatment interventions, particularly among system-involved women. The Utah Criminal Justice Center is an interdisciplinary research center that provides organizations with research, training, and technical assistance grounded in scientific evidence to prevent and reduce crime and victimization among all communities, with an understanding that approaches must be tailored to the contextual needs of organizations and the diverse populations they serve. Dr. Salisbury’s research focuses on correctional policy, risk/needs assessment, and treatment intervention strategies, with a particular focus on system-involved women, gender-responsive practices, and trauma-responsive care. As a result of her scholarship on behalf of women, she was awarded the Marguerite Q. Warren and Ted B. Palmer Differential Intervention Award from the American Society of Criminology Division on Corrections and Sentencing. Patricia Van Voorhis, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Van Voorhis has published extensively, including two books and many articles in the leading criminology and criminal justice journals. She has provided expertise to federal, state, and local agencies on topics pertaining to correctional effectiveness, program implementation, evaluation techniques, women offenders, risk assessment, and correctional classification. She has directed numerous federal- and state-funded research projects on inmate classification, gender-responsive assessment, program implementation, and cognitive behavioral interventions, and continues to pursue a rigorous consulting and research agenda in retirement. Dr. Van Voorhis is the recipient of many awards, including the prestigious American Society of Criminology August Vollmer Award, which recognizes a criminologist whose research scholarship has contributed to justice or to the treatment or prevention of criminal or delinquent behavior.

Part I: A Professional Framework for Correctional Counseling; 1: The Process of Correctional Counseling and Treatment; 2: Understanding the Special Challenges Faced by the Correctional Counselor; 3: Community Corrections Officers as Change Agents; 4: Correctional Treatment: Accomplishments and Realities; Part II: Correctional Assessment, Diagnosis, Classification, and Case Planning; 5: Assessment and Diagnosis of Correctional Clients; 6: An Overview of Correctional Classification Systems; 7: Case Planning and Case Management; Part III: Contemporary Approaches for Correctional Counseling and Treatment; 8: Behavioral Interventions; 9: Cognitive Interventions; 10: Social Learning Interventions; 11: Family Interventions; Part IV: Effective Correctional Interventions for Special Populations; 12: Treating Clients with Substance Abuse; 13: Treating System-Involved Women; 14: Treating Clients who Commit Sex Offenses; 15: Treating Clients with Severe Antisocial Behavior and Psychopathy