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Julia Houston - Making Sense with Offenders - 9780471966272 - V9780471966272
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Making Sense with Offenders

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Description for Making Sense with Offenders Paperback. This new book helps readers to understand why many offenders appear to fail to learn from experience, and why they may be ambivalent or resistant to change. The essence of Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) is that people behave in ways which make sense to them and are consistent with their view of the world. Series: Wiley Series in Offender Rehabilitation. Num Pages: 292 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JKVQ1; JMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
People behave in ways that make sense to them and are consistent with their own understanding and views of the world. Offenders are no different, and personal construct theory and techniques offer the clinician and therapist a powerful framework for understanding an individual s view of the world, which has practical implications for assessment and treatment. Julia Houston has many years experience of using Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) in offender rehabilitation. Her book is aimed at clinical and forensic psychologists, psychiatrists and nurses, and probation officers and social workers, who work with offenders in secure or community settings. For those unfamiliar with PCP this book provides a concise introduction to the concepts, and methods (principally the use of repertory grids), which would be useful in many clinical and therapeutic settings. But the unique feature of the book is the focus on offender assessment and treatment, showing how PCP relates to offending behaviour and offenders, and demonstrating how PCP is used with a variety of offender types. There are specialised chapters on young offenders, violent offenders, sexual offenders, personality disordered offenders, mentally ill offenders and those with problems of alcohol or drug abuse.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Series
Wiley Series in Offender Rehabilitation
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471966272
SKU
V9780471966272
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Julia Houston
Julia Houston is the author of Making Sense with Offenders: Personal Constructs, Therapy and Change, published by Wiley.

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