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Title Cognitive self change : how offenders experience the world and what we can do about it / edited by Jack Bush, Daryl M. Harris, Richard J. Parker
Published Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2016
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Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Understanding Offending Behavior; Hard-Core; Cognitive Self Change; A Human Connection; Phenomenology and Self-reports: Some Preliminary Comments about Method; Phenomenology; Self-reports; Summary of Chapters; Chapter 1: The Idea of Criminal Thinking; Chapter 2: Offenders Speak their Minds; Chapter 3: Cognitive-Emotional-Motivational Structure; Chapter 4: Supportive Authority and the Strategy of Choices; Chapter 5: Cognitive Self Change; Chapter 6: Extended Applications of Supportive Authority
Chapter 7: How We Know: Some Observations about EvidenceNotes; Chapter 1 The Idea of Criminal Thinking; Ellis, Beck, and Antisocial Schemas; Ellis; Beck; Young; Ward et al.; Psychopathology or Irresponsibility; Pathology; Irresponsibility; An Alternative Point of View; Notes; Chapter 2 Offenders Speak their Minds; Seven Male Offenders; "Because I can"; "I can't stand it"; "I can do what I want": Three Samples of One Offender's Thinking; "They took my radio"; "Attacks on my very being"; "I felt bad about my mother crying"; Three Young Women; "I can handle anything, no matter how big or small"
"I always relapse""My running away issues"; Three Violent Mental Health Patients; "Raging rhino"; "I need him to feel my strength"; "Toothless tiger"; Two Problematic Groups; "State-raised"; High Scorers; Three British Gang Members; "It's not acceptable to be a dickhead"; Respect and Love and Power; "Fuck it"; Conclusions and Interpretations; Notes; Chapter 3 Cognitive-Emotional-Motivational Structure; The Idea of Conscious Agency: a Likely Story; Will and Volition, Self and Self-interest; Cognition as Action; Self-identity; The Model
Basic Outlaw Logic: Learning the Rewards of Criminal ThinkingVariations of Criminal Thinking; Conclusions and Implications; Notes; Chapter 4 Supportive Authority and the Strategy of Choices; The Problem of Engagement; Conditions of Communication and Engagement; Supportive Authority; Enforcement; Opportunity; Choice; Rethinking Correctional Treatment; The Strategy of Choices; Final Comments; Notes; Chapter 5 Cognitive Self Change; Four Basic Steps; Step One: Thinking Reports; Step Two: Connecting Thought and Feelings to Behaviors: Patterns and Circle Diagrams
Step Three: Imagine New Ways to ThinkStep Four: Practice Using New Thinking until You Become Good At It; Collaboration and the Strategy of Choices; Brief Notes on Program Delivery: Group Size, Duration and Intensity, Facilitator Qualifications and Training; Group Size; Duration and Intensity; Facilitator Qualifications; Training; Notes; Chapter 6 Extended Applications of Supportive Authority; Why Offenders Need Help; Not Either/Or: Some Promising Examples; The System as the Intervention: Some Recent Examples; The Boston Gun Project and "Ceasefire"; American Community Courts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Introduction: Understanding Offending Behaviour Hard-Core Cognitive Self Change A human connection Phenomenology and self-reports: some preliminary comments about method Chapter Summary 1. The Idea of Criminal Thinking The Idea of Criminal Thinking Ellis, Beck, and Antisocial Schemas Psychopathology or irresponsibility An alternative point of view 2. Offenders Speak Their Minds Three young women Three Violent Mental Health Patients Two problematic groups Three British gang members Conclusions and Interpretations 3. Cognitive-Emotional-Motivational Structure Will and Volition, Self and Self-interest The Model Basic Outlaw Logic: learning the rewards of criminal thinking Variations of Criminal Thinking Conclusions and Implications 4. Supportive Authority and the Strategy of Choices The problem of engagement Conditions of communication and engagement Supportive Authority Re-thinking correctional treatment The strategy of choices Final comments 5. Cognitive Self Change Four Basic Steps Collaboration and the Strategy of Choices Brief Notes on Program Delivery: group size, duration and intensity, facilitator qualifications and training 6. Extended Applications of Supportive Authority Why offenders need help Not Either/Or: some promising examples The system as the intervention: some recent examples Supportive Authority, revisited An idealistic proposal (with modest expectations) 7. How we know: some observations about evidence 1) Introduction 2) Cognitive Self Change 3) The Significance of Subjectivity 4) Science and subjectivity References Index
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Subject Self psychology.
Self-disclosure.
Forensic psychology.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation.
Form Electronic book
Author Bush, Jack, 1938- editor
Harris, Daryl, 1968- editor
Parker, Richard, 1959- editor
LC no. 2016019189
ISBN 9781119121428 (pdf)
1119121426 (pdf)
9781119121435 (epub)
1119121434 (epub)