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Cognitive Self Change
How Offenders Experience the World and What We Can Do About It
Jack Bush (Author), Daryl M. Harris (Author), Richard J. Parker (Author)
9780470974827, Wiley
Hardback, published 13 May 2016
208 pages
25.2 x 17.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.522 kg
COGNITIVE SELF CHANGE “The consensus amongst the leading researchers in the offender treatment area is that the comprehensive and sophisticated clinical methods the authors have derived for offender treatment are unsurpassed. Indeed, they have formed the basis for what is known as the core correctional practices for reducing anti-social behavior.” “Bush and colleagues’ phenomenologically based approach to offender rehabilitation is based explicitly on the stories they have collected from prisoners and probationers and is a welcome contribution to an academic literature that too often obfuscates the actual work involved in delivering help to the hardest to reach in the criminal justice system.” Cognitive Self Change presents a practical guide to rehabilitation based on understanding the way individual offenders experience themselves and the world around them at the moment they offend. De-incentivizing criminal behavior and replacing it with self-empowered change are the keys to upending the traditionally antagonistic relationship between criminals and those meant to help them change. The authors, with their experience of working with offenders and implementing rehabilitation programs, have drawn together clinical and academic perspectives on the treatment of high-risk offenders, analyzing current approaches to treatment and the problems encountered in their application. Cognitive Self Change rejects the traditional dichotomy of control versus treatment, devising instead a strategy that integrates both. Focusing on high-risk and “hard-core” offenders, not just those that are “ready to change,” they discuss why offenders offend, why they are seldom motivated to change, and why they often fail to engage in treatment. This leads to a strategy of communication that teaches offenders a set of skills they can use to change themselves, and that motivates them to do so.
Paul Gendreau, Professor Emeritus, University of New Brunswick
Shadd Maruna, Ph.D., Dean of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice
Preface ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 Understanding Offending Behavior 1 Hard‐Core 5 Cognitive Self Change 9 A Human Connection 12 Phenomenology and Self‐reports: Some Preliminary Comments about Method 14 Summary of Chapters 16 1 The Idea of Criminal Thinking 25 Ellis, Beck, and Antisocial Schemas 33 Psychopathology or Irresponsibility 39 An Alternative Point of View 44 2 Offenders Speak their Minds 48 Seven Male Offenders 49 Three Young Women 58 Three Violent Mental Health Patients 62 Two Problematic Groups 64 Three British Gang Members 72 Conclusions and Interpretations 75 3 Cognitive–Emotional–Motivational Structure 78 The Idea of Conscious Agency: A Likely Story 79 Will and Volition, Self and Self‐interest 82 The Model 85 Basic Outlaw Logic: Learning the Rewards of Criminal Thinking 89 Variations of Criminal Thinking 92 Conclusions and Implications 94 4 Supportive Authority and the Strategy of Choices 97 The Problem of Engagement 97 Conditions of Communication and Engagement 99 Supportive Authority 102 Rethinking Correctional Treatment 109 The Strategy of Choices 109 Final Comments 115 5 Cognitive Self Change 118 Four Basic Steps 121 Collaboration and the Strategy of Choices 139 Brief Notes on Program Delivery: Group Size, Duration and Intensity, Facilitator Qualifications and Training 141 6 Extended Applications of Supportive Authority 145 Why Offenders Need Help 145 Not Either/Or: Some Promising Examples 146 The System as the Intervention: Some Recent Examples 152 Supportive Authority, Revisited 157 An Idealistic Proposal (with modest expectations) 159 7 How We Know: Some Observations about Evidence 162 Introduction 162 Cognitive Self Change 164 The Significance of Subjectivity 165 Science and Subjectivity 169 Bibliography 175 Index 183
Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]
