Forensic CBT (eBook)

Raymond Chip Tafrate is a licensed psychologist and Professor and Chairperson of the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at Central Connecticut State University. His most recent books are Anger Management for Everyone (2009) and Understanding Anger Disorders (2006). Damon Mitchell is a licensed psychologist and Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Central Connecticut State University. His research has been published in a variety of psychology and criminal justice journals including the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Journal of Criminal Justice, and the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

"I very much enjoyed reading this book; it contains excellent chapters, and demonstrates the advances that have been made in recent years in the understanding and treatment of offenders. There is no doubt that this book will be of immense interest and use to practitioners. The book is very informative of what is currently available for treating offenders and includes user friendly forms, worksheets, and examples of case histories, which will aid the practitioner. The book offers hope to practitioners who have to deal with challenging offenders, most of whom lack motivation to change. In short, I found reading this book fascinating and inspirational."
--Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 2014

"This book should be considered a must read for anyone who works anywhere in the corrections system, (local, state, and/or federal). Whether you are working with pretrial incarcerated offenders in a jail, convicted offenders in a prison, probation, parole, half-way house and/or community supervision, this book will offer you numerous practical worksheets and handouts and a set of new tools that will make you more effective and successful with the people in your care and supervision."
--Gustavo R. Grodnitzky, Psychologist and Consultant, Amazon.com

Forensic CBT offers hope in its tone and content and inspiration... and describes advances in recent years in understanding and treatment of offenders... this superb collection strikes the right balance between scholarship and practical application... The book is a must-have. Whether you want to learn, teach, bring yourself up to date, reinvigorate your strategies and techniques, or just add new levels of understanding, this book should be in your library.
--John Gannon, Ph.D., International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology

Forensic CBT: A Handbook for Clinical Practice is a
superb collection that will be of immense value to practitioners
who work with this challenging group of people. Leading
contributors from the CBT approaches have written excellent
chapters that will be immediately helpful, striking just the right
balance between scholarship and practical application. There is an
awareness of the specific challenges in working with offenders---
distrust, lack of motivation, history of problems, lack of social
support, stigmatization---and, importantly, how to overcome
them. I highly recommend this important volume to anyone
working in the forensic area.

--Professor Robert L. Leahy, Director, American Institute
for Cognitive Therapy, NYC.

This handbook is long overdue as it fills a glaring void in
forensic and correctional treatment. With its application of CBT to
an array of offenders and their conditions, it elucidates the
"forgotten R" (responsivity) in the RNR model of
effective correctional intervention.

--Dr Stephen Wormith, University of Saskatchewan,
Canada

Incisive, comprehensive, scholarly, and practical - Tafrate and
Mitchell's Forensic CBT is an impressive body of work, with
contributions from leaders in the field integrating innovations in
applied research and clinical practice for cognitive behavioral
approaches with forensic clientele.

--Professor Mark Olver, University of
Saskatchewan, Canada