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The cognitive growth model maintains that correctional counseling is intended to help offenders balance their lives and important relations through developing more accurate social cognitions and understanding about the self, others, and patterns governing their interactions. This updated Second Edition employs the cognitive growth model to examine the major contemporary issues in correctional counseling and thoroughly explains how to use the model to fully understand and effectively perform correctional counseling. Correctional Counseling: A Cognitive Growth Perspective discusses such issues…mehr

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The cognitive growth model maintains that correctional counseling is intended to help offenders balance their lives and important relations through developing more accurate social cognitions and understanding about the self, others, and patterns governing their interactions. This updated Second Edition employs the cognitive growth model to examine the major contemporary issues in correctional counseling and thoroughly explains how to use the model to fully understand and effectively perform correctional counseling. Correctional Counseling: A Cognitive Growth Perspective discusses such issues as, the counselor roles, work settings and challenges, offender classification and assessment, counseling processes, intervention/therapeutic techniques, and more. With this text the reader will learn how to respond to correctional clients and help them cope with their issues in the community and within prison.
Autorenporträt
Key Sun is professor of law and justice at Central Washington University. He previously worked as a correctional mental health counselor at Washington State Department of Corrections. He received PhD and MA in psychology from Rutgers University, where he also received a master degree in criminal justice. In addition, he has a Bachelor of Law degree from Beijing University and a Master of Social Work degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests involve examining mental health and criminal justice issues from a multidisciplinary perspective, integrating psychology, criminal justice, social work, and cross-cultural approaches. His publications have appeared in psychological and criminal justice journals and textbooks.