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2012
The need for effective correctional counseling for offenders who are reentering communities and ways to achieve this are explained. Sections of this article are: retooling our core; intensive case management; professional development; the vocational ... Read More
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2011
Psychological changes associated with desistance from criminal activity (for at least 3 years) by individuals with long-term criminal histories are investigated. Chapters following an abstract are: introduction; review of the literature; method; find... Read More
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2011 NIC Publication
“This brief bibliography contains some of the research supporting Thinking for a Change as well as CBT programs for offenders generally” (p. 1). Four resources are included regarding the Thinking for a Change Offender Behavior Program along with nine... Read More
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2011
The validation of the Essen Climate Evaluation Schema (EssenCES) is discussed. This instrument is based on the premise that the social climate of a prison can impact the rehabilitation efforts of inmates. Sections of this report include: therapeutic ... Read More
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2011 NIC Publication
Motivational Interviewing (MI) was introduced to the field of corrections in the 1990s through the Evidence-based Practices (EBP) Model as a method for enhancing intrinsic motivation. Since that time, agencies throughout the U.S., in all criminal jus... Read More
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2011
“The Lionheart Foundation is dedicated to providing emotional literacy education programs that significantly alter the life course of incarcerated adults and at-risk youth.” Points of access include: about Lionheart; prison project utilizing “Houses ... Read More
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2011
This overview of motivational interviewing (MI) explains: its aims “to increase a person’s motivation for behavior change and to strengthen that commitment to change” (p. 1); the four principles that guide it; measures of assessment; the evidence bas... Read More
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2011 NIC Publication
Thinking for a Change (T4C) is the innovative, evidence-based cognitive behavioral curriculum from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) that has broadly influenced the correctional field and the way correctional facilitators work with offender... Read More
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2011
“This study evaluates the efficacy of MI [motivational interviewing] versus RT [relaxation training] in reducing substance use outcomes for incarcerated adolescents and examines the role of depressive symptoms in moderating outcomes.” While MI is sho... Read More
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2011
“This study evaluated the effects of a brief offending-focused motivational interviewing (MI) intervention on reconviction in male prisoners servicing sentences for diverse crimes” in New Zealand (p. 1). Results are given for: effect of MI interventi... Read More
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2010
“This study was designed to evaluate the effect of a modest MI [motivational interviewing] training program on probation officer skill, on client outcome, and the overall relationship between officer skill and client outcome” (p. 318). This training ... Read More
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2010 NIC Publication
Designed for use with offender populations, this integrated cognitive behavioral change program represents the integrated synthesis of three cognitive based approaches - cognitive self-change, social skills and problem solving. Its purpose is to chan... Read More
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2010
This book explains the process by which an offender’s antisocial behavior may be corrected. “Correcting antisocial behavior means that some correctional agency or institution is charged with attempting to change undesirable (criminal) behavior to des... Read More
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2010
These definitions of criminal thinking errors will assist the reader in determining where inmates are coming from. Errors covered are: anger; assuming; avoiding the hot iron; blaming; confusion; excuses; fact stacking; fronting; grandiosity or maximi... Read More
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2010
This website provides information regarding Changing Lives through Literature (CLTL), the “alternative sentencing program based on the power of literature to transform lives through reading and group discussion.” Entry points include a program descr... Read More
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2010
Information about motivational interviewing can be found at this website. “Motivational interviewing is a client-centered, directive method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence.” These are the points of ... Read More
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2010
Sustainability does not always need to involve a grandiose setting. It can also be on a smaller scale—one inmate at a time. The Insight Garden Program (IGP) at San Quentin “provides rehabilitation to self-selected prisoners through the process of or... Read More
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2009
Individuals interested in inmate rehabilitation will read this publication. This report “ looks at various approaches toward achieving success in offender rehabilitation, drawing on existing research as well as in-depth interviews with experts, and p... Read More
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2009
This paper describes a new cognitive training discipline called the The Missing Discipline, a "specific model that demonstrates how both the science of change and the art of change can be combined; a new model for teaching, learning and developing co... Read More
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2009
The six components of the Oregon Accountability Model are explained. These elements are: criminal risk factor assessment and case planning; staff-inmate interactions; work and programs; children and families; reentry; and community supervision and p... Read More
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2009
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2009
Results from a cost-benefit analysis of seven programming categories (i.e., violence prevention, family violence, substance abuse, sex offender, living skills, education, and employment) are presented. Four sections follow an executive summary -- int... Read More
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2009 NIC Publication
This presentation is an extended interview with Dr. William Miller regarding the utilization of motivational interviewing (MI) in correctional settings. Topics discussed include:
  • Background of MI
  • MI in corrections
  • How MI works <... Read More
2009
“This paper provides an overview of evidence and argument about reoffending and about the kinds of practices of offender supervision in the community that might be most effective in reducing it” (p.4). An executive summary and the following seven sec... Read More
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2009
This brochure explains the California Logic Model, “a detailed, sequential description of how California will apply evidence-based principles and practices and to effectively deliver a core set of effective rehabilitation programs” (p. 3).... Read More
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2009
The “7 Habits on the Inside” program is highlighted. It was developed by a group of inmates at Colorado’s Fremont Correctional Facility. Sections of this article include: background; growth of the program; men’s results; setting for the women’s surve... Read More
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2009
The authors try to clean away 26 years of accumulated misgivings from what motivational interviewing entails. The ten things MI is not are: the transtheoretical model of change; a way of tricking people into doing what you want them to do; a techniqu... Read More
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2008
The steps one takes to learn motivational interviewing (MI) are briefly described. This outline is useful for creating a MI training structure and for plotting where the trainee is at in the learning process.... Read More
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2008 NIC Publication
“This paper focuses on what a more integrative correctional practice framework might look like that aims to be more broadly evidence-based, paying attention to the growing knowledge base about what seems to assist offenders most in their ongoing and ... Read More
2008
The potential benefits realized through the use of a canine training program in a correctional facility are investigated. The inmates train assistance, therapy, rescue, and medical alert canines. Emotional outcomes of this program involve social supp... Read More
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2008
Respondents' opinions about two juvenile justice policy alternatives - incarceration and rehabilitation (which is more effective) - are compared. The "public is willing to pay nearly 20 percent more in additional taxes annually for programs that offe... Read More
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2008
This report "seeks to provide a preliminary overview of the challenges posed by radicalized and extremist prisoners, and to explore the potential for the radicalization of young European Muslims in the prison environment" (p. iii). Chapters contained... Read More
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2008
A collection of articles written by Russ Fry concerning corrections with an occasional focus on community corrections is presented. Articles included in this compilation are: “Why Evidence-Based Practices Are Important (Or, Please Pass the Leeches)”... Read More
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2008
"This bulletin presents the results of two studies bearing on the effectiveness of supervised bonds as a means of reducing re-offending" (p. 2). Study 1 determines if there was a difference in re-offending between offenders with supervision and those... Read More
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2008
This handbook provides information "for people who need to recover from criminal and other self-defeating/self-destructive behaviors and are doing so with the help of a Right Living community" (p. 3). Topics discussed include: what is recovery and R... Read More
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2008 NIC Publication
This monograph is “intended to strengthen and improve the dissemination of evidence-based rehabilitative technologies for offenders, within the multidisciplinary context of correctional treatment” (p.x). Sections of this document include: executive s... Read More
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2007 NIC Publication
This publication "provides probation and parole officers and other correctional professionals with both a solid grounding in the principles behind MI [motivational interviewing] and a practical guide for applying these principles in their everyday de... Read More
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2007 NIC Publication
Detailed information regarding the use and benefits of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in prisons and jails is provided. Chapters comprising this guide address: the increasing need for effective treatment services; what cognitive-behavioral therap... Read More
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2005 NIC Publication
Seventeen best practice in-custody programs (the "placement in residential program that restrict offender access to the community") are described (p. 7). Programs highlighted are: Aggression Replacement Training; B-Cultural Substance Abuse Curriculu... Read More
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2004 NIC Publication
A 32-hour training program that will "provide practitioners, who are working with resistive, chemically dependent or criminal populations, with specific knowledge, skills and techniques to more effectively internalize motivation for change" is presen... Read More
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2003 NIC Publication
The use of motivational interviewing (MI) with offenders is described during this 12-hour program. MI is an integrated and "complex set of clinical skills and strategies based on the principles of autonomy, collaboration and evocation" (p. i). Sectio... Read More
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2002
The effectiveness of "Thinking for a Change" -- a cognitive behavioral program for adult probationers -- is investigated. Following an abstract, this dissertation contains these chapters: introduction; literature review; study purpose and major aims... Read More
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2002 NIC Publication
A 32-hour training program on how to deliver an offender program which integrates cognitive approaches for changing behavior by restructuring offenders' thinking and teaching pro-social cognitive skills is provided. Participants will be able to: des... Read More
2001 NIC Publication
A 32-hour training program (consisting of 32 modules) explaining an integrated cognitive behavior change program for offenders is presented. Participants will be able to: describe the theoretical foundations of cognitive behavioral approaches; articu... Read More
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2001 NIC Publication
A problem solving program for offenders is provided. At the core of this curriculum is an integrated, seamless synthesis of cognitive restructuring and cognitive skills interventions. Lesson topics include: active listening; asking a question; givin... Read More
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2001 NIC Publication
Additional sources of information regarding concepts covered in the Thinking for a Change program can be found in this list of 21 items.... Read More
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2001 NIC Publication
El programa, Pensar en un Cambio, tiene como centro, un programa de resolucion de problemas detallada con ambas intervenciones de restructuracion cognitiva y habilidades sociales. El formato del programa se comprende de zz lecciones con una capacidad... Read More
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2000 NIC Publication
This workshop looks at principles of effective intervention and how these principles can be applied to controlling and changing offenders' behavior. Sections include: treatment v. punishment; what works -- overview of treatment effectiveness; crimina... Read More
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1997 NIC Publication
Designed to give correctional practitioners an overview of services available for use with their clients, this resources guide lists cognitive-behavioral programs for males, females, youth, adults, and couples. It covers primary need areas as fol... Read More
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1997 NIC Publication
The objective of these training sessions is to empower corrections institutions to significantly decrease the percentage of recidivism as they work with offenders. This four-session training in the area of cognitive/behavioral strategies will help pa... Read More
1996 NIC Publication
This two year voluntary program assists participants through group sessions and individual behavioral treatment sessions in finding ways to avoid inappropriate and illegal sexual behavior in the future. There are eight modules in this program. Module... Read More
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1995 NIC Publication
The objectives of this thirty-hour program are to learn and practice problem solving steps, and to discover the correlation between the way we think about situations and the way we respond. Utilizing these problem solving skills outside of the classr... Read More
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1994 NIC Publication
The focus of the Cognitive Interventions Program is to change the criminal behavior of offenders by motivating them to change themselves. Cognitive change is self-change. This program is divided into four phases. Phase I - Orientation: This phase ... Read More
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1985 NIC Publication
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