The first meeting with a client(s) is incredibly important it’s the time that the counsellor can start to decide on the best treatment approach for a client(s). This is referred to as the initial assessment and should be focused on engagement and active listening in order to understand how the client sees their problems and to gain a time line of existing issues also the clients thoughts‚ feelings and identify what triggers these thoughts‚ feelings and behaviors. The initial assessment is also important
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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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released from prison tend to return to prison because it is the only thing they know. Are we serving the greater good by locking these people away? Shouldn’t we be trying to help the criminals turn their lives around and become law-biding citizens? Rehabilitation is the key to help the criminals in doing so. The government should be rehabilitating criminals because it will benefit the victims of crime‚ serve as a means to an end to crime‚ and serve the greater good. The government
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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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Wei-Fen Lin‚ David Mack‚ Robert D. Enright‚ Dean Krahn‚ and Thomas W. Baskin. Critique of Population & Sampling The population selected for this study was not randomly chosen. Forty-three psychiatrically challenged patients in a residential drug rehabilitation center were chosen for this study. “Researchers often study only samples for the sake of efficiency and then generalizes their results to the population of interest” (Pyrczak‚ 2008‚ p. 55). The sampling that took place began with forty patients
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Incarceration alone does not provide an offender with the skill set necessary to overcome the actual conviction itself. A felony record is very difficult to bury; thus‚ we see released offenders without rehabilitation recycle back to the “Same As” crimes to survive. Crime has been an outgoing problem that has evolved for decades. In the world‚ today‚ the criminal justice system has a multitude of options when dealing with those who are convicted of offenses. Prison is not for everyone. Some get convicted;
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Ethically‚ it would be inappropriate for a counselor to decide on using a new assessment instrument after having read one article on its use. Section E.9.b. of the ACA Code of Ethics (2014) states that counselors practice caution when using instruments‚ especially those whose validity or reliability can be questionable (p. 13). One article is insufficient proof of empirical data. As an ethically competent counselor‚ one must weigh the pros and cons in administering assessment instruments to each
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Mock Session: Showing What I Learned Mock sessions are a great way to apply the skills that are learned in sexuality class. I found it beneficial to be the client and the counselor because there is a set of skills that you have to use to do both tasks. I will discuss my experience being the client and the counselor. The mock session created an experience to learn how conduct a sexual assessment while watching and practicing therapeutic skills to know how conceptualize case with sexual issues.
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further lung damage and COPD exacerbations through early diagnosis‚ pharmacological‚ and rehabilitation interventions (Bauldoff‚ 2012). Pulmonary rehabilitation is a program in which a team of healthcare professionals help manage and treat the problems caused by COPD‚ resulting in a reduction of symptoms and an improved quality of life. It typically combines exercise‚ breathing therapy‚ nutritional counseling‚ and other forms of patient education or support deemed beneficial by the healthcare team
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distraction strategy to “help reduce negative thinking and distract from troubling thoughts.” (Seligman & Reichenberg‚ 2014 p.302). Thanks for sharing. Rebecca Najera Pinales REFERENCES: Seligman‚ L. & Reichenberg L.W.‚ (Eds.). (2014). Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy Systems‚ Strategies‚ and Skills. (4th ed.). Boston‚ MA: Pearson Education‚
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