Goals of Cognitive Rehabilitation Cognitive Rehabilitation is the practice of training techniques that facilitates improvements in targeted cognitive areas‚ and focus on functional outcome. Cognitive Rehabilitation is systematic‚ functionally oriented service of therapeutic cognitive activities and an understanding of the person’s behavioural deficit. Cognitive rehabilitation involves a structured set of therapeutic activities designed to retrain an individual’s ability to think‚ use judgement‚
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had some passion about. As I read over the topic suggestions in our syllabus‚ I saw drug rehabilitation and instantly knew that was I wanted to research. My oldest cousin developed a drug problem when he was in high school. It started with him smoking marijuana then evolved into heroin use when he was in his early 20s. Later‚ he was arrested and during his time in prison‚ he went through drug rehabilitation‚ then after serving his sentence he was released from prison. After several years of being
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The Impact of Juvenile Inmates’ Perceptions and Facility Characteristics on Victimization in Juvenile Correctional Facilities is written by Aaron Kupchik and R. Bradley Snyder. The significance of the problem the article focuses on is evidence of a third theoretic model in addition to the deprivation and importation theoretic models. The third model combines facility and individual variables that concentrate on the perception of the youth toward the facility’s rules and standards. The deprivation
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Female Correctional Officers Jordan Beth Stevenson Introduction to Corrections October 25‚ 2012 Saeler Abstract This research paper consists of brief history of how female correctional officers came to be in the system and the court cases that hindered and helped their process. It also consists of the stereotypes and struggles the officers are faced with in this line of work; such as weaknesses and home life association. Sexual harassment and discrimination is a problematic topic
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Punishment vs. Rehabilitation Helen Olko October 1‚ 2012 Abstract The expectations that our society has for the criminal justice system is to punish and rehabilitate individuals who commit crime. Punishment and rehabilitation are also two of the four acknowledged objectives of the criminal justice system‚ with deterrence and incapacitation being the others. In the United States‚ punishment has always been the primary goal to achieve when dealing
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According to career cruising correctional officer “ The job is very challenging and can be frustrating. Officers often work with dangerous offenders‚ which may require them to carry firearms. Their clients may have drug or alcohol problems or need psychiatric treatment.Probation officers usually work a 40-hour week. However‚ overtime is common. Officers spend long hours interviewing clients‚ friends‚ and families to prepare reports and monitor offenders’ progress while on probation. These interviews
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Rehabilitation Paper Jimmy Bolden CJA/234 July 15‚ 2015 Yolonda Johnson Rehabilitation Paper The great significance of rehabilitation has encountered flows and ebbs all across the history of corrections. Rehabilitating criminal offenders has been supported by the public. Eighty-eight percent of rehabilitative programs support inmate work programs to make products‚ perform services‚ or construct buildings‚ ninety-four percent of rehabilitative programs support requiring offenders to be able to write
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Incarceration or Rehabilitation for Non-Violent Drug Offenders Statistics have proven that incarceration alone is a monetary pitfall and does not deter the cluster of non-violent drug related crimes in this country. We need to create an alternative habilitation pattern for these offenders including an assessment of their mental health‚ specialized life skills training‚ and occupational employment assistance: in some cases‚ in lieu of incarceration and in others‚ in conjunction with incarceration
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Santana. “Each day in the United States‚ the correctional system supervises over six million of its residents. Approximately two million people are in prison or jail‚ while four million are on probation or parole. With so many people under its control‚ a central policy issue is what the correctional system hopes to accomplish with those it places behind bars or on community supervision. A simple response might be that the purpose of these correctional sanctions is to "punish" the criminally
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with the placement of the inmates in treatment programs and assist the inmates identified with serious or acute mental illness‚ those who as suicidal‚ and those with dangerous or disruptive symptoms (n/a‚ 2004). Many of the inmates entering these institutions are found to try to hide their illnesses‚ some may not know they have a mental illness or have the capability of conveying the needed information about their symptoms‚
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