Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation

Patricia Van Voorhis, Ph.D., is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. 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, cognitive-behavioral interventions, and correctional effectiveness, and recently concluded a federally funded, multi-site study of the risk factors for female recidivism. Van Voorhis is the 2011 recipient of the prestigious American Society of Criminology's 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. Dr. Michael C. Braswell is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology of East Tennessee State University (ETSU). Braswell received his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Mercer University in 1969, a Master of Arts in Psychology from West Georgia College in 1970, his Ed.S. in Rehabilitation/Correctional Counseling from the University of Georgia in 1973, and his Doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1975. He joined the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at ETSU in 1977, and teaches classes on Ethics and Justice, Human Relations and Criminal Justice, and Film Studies in Crime and Justice.

Part One: A Professional Framework for Correctional Counseling 1. The Process of Correctional Counseling and Treatment 2. Understanding the Special Challenges Faced by the Correctional Counselor in the Prison Setting Part Two: Historical Foundations of Correctional Counseling and Treatment 3. Psychoanalytic Therapy 4. Radical Behavioral Interventions 5. Early Approaches to Group and Milieu Therapy Part Three: Offender Assessment, Diagnosis, and Classification 6. Diagnosis and Assessment of Criminal Offenders 7. An Overview of Offender Classifi cation Systems Part Four: Contemporary Approaches to Correctional Counseling and Treatment 8. Social Learning Models 9. Cognitive Therapies 10. Family Therapy Part Five: Effective Correctional Intervention: What Works? 11. Treating Sexual Offenders 12. Treating Substance Abuse in Offender Populations 13. Treating Antisocial Offenders 14. Correctional Treatment: Accomplishments and Realities