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Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation, 10th Edition
By Emily J. Salisbury, Patricia Van Voorhis
(All Chapters 1-15, Latest Edition, Verified Answers)
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, Table of Contents
Part I: A Professional Framework for Correctional Counseling ........................................ 1
1. The Process of Correctional Counseling and Treatment ........................................ 3
2. Understanding the Special Challenges Faced by the Correctional Counselor .............. 22
3. Community Corrections Officers as Change Agents ................................................ 41
4. Correctional Treatment: Accomplishments and Realities ........................................ 56
Part II: Client Assessment, Diagnosis, Classification, and Case Planning ................. 67
5. Assessment and Diagnosis of Correctional Clients ................................................ 69
6. An Overview of Correctional Classification Systems ............................................... 90
7. Case Planning and Case Management ................................................................. 119
Part III: Contemporary Approaches for Correctional Counseling and Treatment ........ 141
8. Behavioral Interventions ................................................................................. 143
9. Cognitive Interventions .................................................................................... 165
10. Social Learning Interventions ........................................................................... 199
11. Family Interventions ....................................................................................... 220
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Part IV: Effective Correctional Interventions for Special Populations ....................... 249
12. Treating Clients with Substance Abuse ............................................................... 251
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13. Treating System-Involved Women ................................................................. 284
14. Treating Clients Who Commit Sex Offenses ..................................................... 301
15. Treating Clients with Severe Antisocial Behavior and Psychopathy ..................... 326
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Chapter 1: The Process of Correctional Counseling and Treatment
,Discussion Questions
1. What challenges do correctional counselors face that other counselors outside of the field of
corrections may not have to deal with?
2. What are the essential abilities that a correctional counselor or therapist needs to possess?
3. What is Motivational Interviewing and why might it be helpful with people involved in the
justice-system?
4. What is meant by gender-responsivity, and how might it be demonstrated?
5. What are the six basic elements of communication, and how do they relate to the “abilities” in
question 2?
6. What are four ways in which correctional counselors become more sensitive to the ethnic and
cultural diversity of justice-involved people?
7. Discuss the crucial role that both education specialists play as part of the correctional counseling and
treatment team.
True/False Questions
1. The traditional idea of correctional counseling may not be compatible with the legitimate
interests and purposes of helping clients. True
2. We should view counselors as helping professionals who apply their skills and expertise in
correctional and related settings. True C
3. In order to develop a sense of timing, the counselor needs to carefully plan the session ahead of time
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and play it out exactly as planned. False
4. According to the authors, communication is the lifeblood of relationships. True
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5. Risking, in a therapeutic sense, is exemplified by a client committing to a serious effort to
substantially change attitude and behavior patterns. True
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6. Therapeutic intention may be more important to long-term rehabilitation than immediate
outcomes from treatment. True
7. One of the guiding principles for gender-responsive policies is that gender does not make a
difference in terms of counseling correctional clients. False
8. Meaningful communication most often occurs when we effectively filter people and events
through the mindset of our dominant culture. False
9. Without genuine care and commitment to the helping process, therapeutic outcomes for both the
client and counselor will fall short. True
10. Motivational Interviewing techniques involve the correctional counselor presenting the
arguments for change in order to motivate clients. False
11. Confidentiality is not an issue in the dual role conflict experienced by probation/parole officers.
False
12. To a large extent, institutional counselors are more involved in correctional maintenance than in
correctional treatment. True
13. Typically, a counselor who works in a correctional setting is concerned first with the rehabilitation and
treatment needs of the client, and second with the security/custody needs of the agency and
community. False
14. Parole is perhaps most utilized as an alternative to sentencing juveniles and adults to
correctional facilities. False
15. The roles of probation and parole officers are conflictual in that they must maintain a balance
between enforcing the conditions of probation or parole, yet provide counseling and guidance
, services. True
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. Which of the following is not a focus of therapeutic intervention that might be utilized by
a counselor?
a. education and employment
b. mental health concerns
c. prison adjustment
d. none of the above***
2. Which of the following is not one of the four essential abilities of counseling, as suggested
by the authors?
a. high-quality therapeutic relationships
b. focus on task at hand***
c. professional humility
d. effective risking
3. Correctional counseling includes which of the following?
a. creating opportunities for personal and social transformation
b. assisting with institutional adjustment
c. encouraging personal reform
d. all of the above*** C
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4. Counselors who demonstrate the key quality of will persevere in their attempts
to impart in their clients a desire to do the right thing.
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a. expectation
b. sense of timing
c. therapeutic intention***
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d. contentment
5. Motivational Interviewing is an approach that can be used by correctional counselors to:
a. enhance a client’s intrinsic motivation to change.
b. explore and resolve a client’s ambivalence about change.
c. elicit change talk from a client.
d. all of the above***
6. Parole and probation counseling fall under the category in the correctional setting.
a. institutional
b. community-based***
c. prison environment
d. diversion
7. The primary focus of the institutional counselor known as the is often to
help incarcerated people survive the stresses of prison life.
a. probation officer
b. parole officer
c. case manager
d. prison chaplain***
8. One of the more important roles of the institutional counselor is to:
a. prepare reports for parole boards.
Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation, 10th Edition
By Emily J. Salisbury, Patricia Van Voorhis
(All Chapters 1-15, Latest Edition, Verified Answers)
C
LE
ST
BE
, Table of Contents
Part I: A Professional Framework for Correctional Counseling ........................................ 1
1. The Process of Correctional Counseling and Treatment ........................................ 3
2. Understanding the Special Challenges Faced by the Correctional Counselor .............. 22
3. Community Corrections Officers as Change Agents ................................................ 41
4. Correctional Treatment: Accomplishments and Realities ........................................ 56
Part II: Client Assessment, Diagnosis, Classification, and Case Planning ................. 67
5. Assessment and Diagnosis of Correctional Clients ................................................ 69
6. An Overview of Correctional Classification Systems ............................................... 90
7. Case Planning and Case Management ................................................................. 119
Part III: Contemporary Approaches for Correctional Counseling and Treatment ........ 141
8. Behavioral Interventions ................................................................................. 143
9. Cognitive Interventions .................................................................................... 165
10. Social Learning Interventions ........................................................................... 199
11. Family Interventions ....................................................................................... 220
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Part IV: Effective Correctional Interventions for Special Populations ....................... 249
12. Treating Clients with Substance Abuse ............................................................... 251
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13. Treating System-Involved Women ................................................................. 284
14. Treating Clients Who Commit Sex Offenses ..................................................... 301
15. Treating Clients with Severe Antisocial Behavior and Psychopathy ..................... 326
BE
Chapter 1: The Process of Correctional Counseling and Treatment
,Discussion Questions
1. What challenges do correctional counselors face that other counselors outside of the field of
corrections may not have to deal with?
2. What are the essential abilities that a correctional counselor or therapist needs to possess?
3. What is Motivational Interviewing and why might it be helpful with people involved in the
justice-system?
4. What is meant by gender-responsivity, and how might it be demonstrated?
5. What are the six basic elements of communication, and how do they relate to the “abilities” in
question 2?
6. What are four ways in which correctional counselors become more sensitive to the ethnic and
cultural diversity of justice-involved people?
7. Discuss the crucial role that both education specialists play as part of the correctional counseling and
treatment team.
True/False Questions
1. The traditional idea of correctional counseling may not be compatible with the legitimate
interests and purposes of helping clients. True
2. We should view counselors as helping professionals who apply their skills and expertise in
correctional and related settings. True C
3. In order to develop a sense of timing, the counselor needs to carefully plan the session ahead of time
LE
and play it out exactly as planned. False
4. According to the authors, communication is the lifeblood of relationships. True
ST
5. Risking, in a therapeutic sense, is exemplified by a client committing to a serious effort to
substantially change attitude and behavior patterns. True
BE
6. Therapeutic intention may be more important to long-term rehabilitation than immediate
outcomes from treatment. True
7. One of the guiding principles for gender-responsive policies is that gender does not make a
difference in terms of counseling correctional clients. False
8. Meaningful communication most often occurs when we effectively filter people and events
through the mindset of our dominant culture. False
9. Without genuine care and commitment to the helping process, therapeutic outcomes for both the
client and counselor will fall short. True
10. Motivational Interviewing techniques involve the correctional counselor presenting the
arguments for change in order to motivate clients. False
11. Confidentiality is not an issue in the dual role conflict experienced by probation/parole officers.
False
12. To a large extent, institutional counselors are more involved in correctional maintenance than in
correctional treatment. True
13. Typically, a counselor who works in a correctional setting is concerned first with the rehabilitation and
treatment needs of the client, and second with the security/custody needs of the agency and
community. False
14. Parole is perhaps most utilized as an alternative to sentencing juveniles and adults to
correctional facilities. False
15. The roles of probation and parole officers are conflictual in that they must maintain a balance
between enforcing the conditions of probation or parole, yet provide counseling and guidance
, services. True
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. Which of the following is not a focus of therapeutic intervention that might be utilized by
a counselor?
a. education and employment
b. mental health concerns
c. prison adjustment
d. none of the above***
2. Which of the following is not one of the four essential abilities of counseling, as suggested
by the authors?
a. high-quality therapeutic relationships
b. focus on task at hand***
c. professional humility
d. effective risking
3. Correctional counseling includes which of the following?
a. creating opportunities for personal and social transformation
b. assisting with institutional adjustment
c. encouraging personal reform
d. all of the above*** C
LE
4. Counselors who demonstrate the key quality of will persevere in their attempts
to impart in their clients a desire to do the right thing.
ST
a. expectation
b. sense of timing
c. therapeutic intention***
BE
d. contentment
5. Motivational Interviewing is an approach that can be used by correctional counselors to:
a. enhance a client’s intrinsic motivation to change.
b. explore and resolve a client’s ambivalence about change.
c. elicit change talk from a client.
d. all of the above***
6. Parole and probation counseling fall under the category in the correctional setting.
a. institutional
b. community-based***
c. prison environment
d. diversion
7. The primary focus of the institutional counselor known as the is often to
help incarcerated people survive the stresses of prison life.
a. probation officer
b. parole officer
c. case manager
d. prison chaplain***
8. One of the more important roles of the institutional counselor is to:
a. prepare reports for parole boards.
