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Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients - Practical Implications for Institutional and Community Settings (Paperback)
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Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients - Practical Implications for Institutional and Community Settings (Paperback)
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Explore the possibilities for successfully treating incarcerated or
community-based substance abusersSubstance Abuse Treatment with
Correctional Clients: Practical Implications for Institutional and
Community Settings provides key research findings and policy
implications for treating alcohol- and drug-addicted correctional
clients. This book addresses a range of critical issues associated
with delivering treatment in institutional and community settings.
The critical thinking questions, tables, extensive bibliographies,
and name and subject index will help academics and practitioners in
criminal justice, sociology, counseling/psychology, and public
policy. Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients shares
the practical knowledge of researchers and practitioners in the
fields of drug and alcohol addictions, substance abuse counseling,
and criminal justice. The first section provides a review of the
theoretical explanations for substance abuse, "best practice"
treatment programs for substance abusers, and the use of
coerced/mandated treatment. The second section addresses the
substance-addicted offender in the institutional setting, the third
includes works that describe community-based treatment programs and
the problems associated with them, and the fourth looks at special
treatment populations, including juveniles and adolescent females.
In Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients, you will
find: reviews of various types of treatment programs being used to
treat substance-addicted individuals a study of the predictors of
success and/or failure in corrections-based substance abuse
programming--how to identify and use the predictors to prevent
relapse arguments for and against coerced treatment in the
correctional environment, and the concept of "motivation" a
thorough investigation of the therapeutic community (TC) program
for institutional-based substance abusers descriptions of treatment
programming designed specifically for substance abusing community
corrections clients--drug courts and Pennsylvania's Restrictive
Intermediate Punishment treatment programSubstance Abuse Treatment
with Correctional Clients guides you through the major policy
issues faced by those who provide substance abuse treatment under
what can only be described as coercive circumstances. In this
important resource, you will discover major treatment modules as
well as advice for working with adult, juvenile, and male or female
offenders. This book provides you with the techniques that
treatment communities need for helping offenders stay clean after
they re-enter the community environment.
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