Corrections Staff/Career Development

Includes the presentations from the American Correctional Association's 134th Congress of Correction in Chicago and the 2004 Winter Conference in New Orleans.

Helps counselors introduce inmates to treatment, motivate them, and help them avoid relapse.

This collection of assessments will help you and your staff to determine how to assist offenders and ex-offenders in re-starting their lives after leaving prison.

Offers guidance for corrections wardens to improve their managerial skills.

Designed as a resource guide, this book is a must for corrections officials, legislators and educators.

Reveals the world of some of our country's most dangerous prisoners, and describes how the staff manages high-risk inmates and maintains one of the most safe and secure prison environments in the world.

This instructors manual provides invaluable assistance for leading teens through the Cage Your Rage for Teens program.

The goal of this workbook is to help correctional managers and supervisors improve overall staff performance and learn how to coach staff with performance problems.

How to recognize, understand, and deal with people who try to control you.

Answers officers' questions about the rights of inmates and staff, and provides correctional staff with a basic understanding of the law.

provides straightforward, authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-the-minute information.

Helps corrections staff communicate more smoothly in an increasingly multicultural environment.

Covers the basics of the ADA and how it applies to detention facilities and correctional institutions.

This guide is designed to help youth workers develop the structure and routine needed to perform their duties more efficiently.

The remarkable story of one of the most influential female corrections superintendents in U.S. history - her commitment to, understanding of, and work with female offenders, and her efforts to advance women who work in corrections.

Examines the correctional workforce through the eyes of individuals from very different ethnic, racial, age, and religious backgrounds.

Presents ideas and concepts for designing or updating a comprehensive security program in correctional facilities.

Offers providers and counselors an invaluable springboard to treatment.

This training manual is a guide for facilitating a 12-session course based on the book, "Houses of Healing: A Prisoner's Guide to Inner Power and Freedom."

Designed to accompany the participant's workbook, this manual includes a structured set of activities that can be used by the counselor or adjusted to meet the particular needs of the group.

This complete training package, designed for the non-professional trainer, helps ex-offenders ace the critical job interview.

Helps you define what type of inmates are most suitable for boot camps, what type of boot camps are available, and what type of staff training is needed to make boot camps work.

Juvenile offending and antisocial behavior are enormous societal concerns. This book summarizes the current evidence on prevention, diversion, causes, and rates of delinquency, as well as assessment of risk and intervention needs.

Discusses the four types of listening and how to overcome the many emotional filters as well as mental and physical distractions that impede your ability to listen.

Includes 16 essays, written by experienced professionals, that focus on issues relevant to juvenile justice practitioners.