Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients - Letitia C Pallone, Barbara Sims

Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients

Practical Implications for Institutional and Community Settings
Buch | Hardcover
276 Seiten
2005
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-2126-7 (ISBN)
218,20 inkl. MwSt
Explore the possibilities for successfully treating incarcerated or community-based substance abusers

Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients: Practical Implications for Institutional and Community Settings provides key research findings and policy implications for treating alcohol- and drug-addicted correctional clients. This book addresses a range of critical issues associated with delivering treatment in institutional and community settings. The critical thinking questions, tables, extensive bibliographies, and name and subject index will help academics and practitioners in criminal justice, sociology, counseling/psychology, and public policy.

Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients shares the practical knowledge of researchers and practitioners in the fields of drug and alcohol addictions, substance abuse counseling, and criminal justice. The first section provides a review of the theoretical explanations for substance abuse, best practice treatment programs for substance abusers, and the use of coerced/mandated treatment. The second section addresses the substance-addicted offender in the institutional setting, the third includes works that describe community-based treatment programs and the problems associated with them, and the fourth looks at special treatment populations, including juveniles and adolescent females.

In Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients, you will find:



reviews of various types of treatment programs being used to treat substance-addicted individuals

a study of the predictors of success and/or failure in corrections-based substance abuse programminghow to identify and use the predictors to prevent relapse

arguments for and against coerced treatment in the correctional environment, and the concept of motivation

a thorough investigation of the therapeutic community (TC) program for institutional-based substance abusers

descriptions of treatment programming designed specifically for substance abusing community corrections clientsdrug courts and Pennsylvania’s Restrictive Intermediate Punishment treatment program

Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients guides you through the major policy issues faced by those who provide substance abuse treatment under what can only be described as coercive circumstances. In this important resource, you will discover major treatment modules as well as advice for working with adult, juvenile, and male or female offenders. This book provides you with the techniques that treatment communities need for helping offenders stay clean after they re-enter the community environment.

Letitia C Pallone

About the Editor

Contributors

Preface

Introduction (Barbara Sims)

PART I: THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM

Chapter 1. Treating the Substance-Addicted Offender: Theory and Practice (Barbara Sims)

Theoretical Explanations for Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Treating Substance Addiction

Implications for the Correctional Environment

Discussion Questions

Chapter 2. Predictors of Success and Failure in Correctional-Based Treatment Programs (James W. Golden and Barbara Sims)

History of Mental Health Problems

Low Education Levels and Negative Self-Concept

Gender-Specific Risks

Dynamics of the Group Setting

Length of Time in Treatment

Postrelease Aftercare Programming

Summary and Conclusions

Discussion Questions

Chapter 3. Treatment Motivation Characteristics of Offenders Who Abuse Substances (Robert A. Shearer)

Compliance versus Internalization

URICA Research

Resistance to Treatment

Summary and Conclusions

Discussion Questions

PART II: INSTITUTIONAL-BASED TREATMENT PROGRAMS

Chapter 4. A Critical Examination of Failures in a Therapeutic Community: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory (James W. Golden)

Substance Abuse Treatment in the Institutional Setting

Methodology for the Present Study

Data Analysis and Findings

Summary and Conclusions

Discussion Questions

Chapter 5. A Qualitative Exploration into a Prison Substance Abuse Treatment Program: I Tell Them What They Want to Hear (Allan L. Patenaude)

Therapeutic Communities in Prison Environments

Qualitative Research Among Prison Inmates

Methodology for the Present Study

Major Findings

Honesty Within Treatment Programs

Summary and Conclusions

Discussion Questions

Chapter 6. Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Programming: What Do the Inmates Think? (Mary K. Stohr, Craig Hemmens, Jed Dayley, Diane Baune, Kristin Kjaer, Mark Gornik, and Cindy Noon)

Research on Correctional Programming

RSAT at SICI

Methods

Findings and Analysis

Conclusions and Policy Recommendations

Discussion Questions

Appendix: Ohio RSAT Client Questionnaire

PART III: COMMUNITY-BASED TREATMENT PROGRAMS

Chapter 7. Effects of a Drug Diversion Court on Client Recidivism (Debbie S. Cunningham and William E. Stone)

Drug Court Operations

The Present Study

Major Findings

Summary and Conclusions

Discussion Questions

Chapter 8. Setting the Stage for Treating Drug Court Clients: How to Initiate Treatment (Robert Walker and TK Logan)

Key Components of Drug Courts

Foundation for Understanding Substance Abuse and Crime

The Counselor-Client Relationship

Managing the Pretreatment Context for Counseling

Summary and Conclusions

Discussion Questions

Chapter 9. Restrictive Intermediate Punishment Programming: A Community-Based Treatment Program for Substance-Addicted Correctional Clients (Barbara Sims and M.A. Toni DuPont-Morales)

Review of the Literature

Pennsylvania’s Restrictive Intermediate Punishment Program

The Present Study

Summary and Conclusions

Discussion Questions

PART IV: SPECIAL TREATMENT POPULATIONS

Chapter 10. Treating Juvenile Substance Abuse in the Institutional Setting (Brian A. Glaser and Paul J. Cohen)

Review of the Literature

A Description of the Juvenile Counseling and Assessment Program (JCAP): A Short-Term Treatment Program for Substance-Abusing Youth

Summary and Conclusions

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.3.2005
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 670 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Suchtkrankheiten
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
ISBN-10 0-7890-2126-9 / 0789021269
ISBN-13 978-0-7890-2126-7 / 9780789021267
Zustand Neuware
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