Deck 1: The Process of Correctional Counseling and Treatment

Question 1

What challenges do correctional counselors face that other counselors outside of the field of corrections may not have to deal with?

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

What are the essential abilities that a correctional counselor or therapist needs to possess?

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

What is Motivational Interviewing and why might it be helpful with people involved in the justice-system?

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

What is meant by gender-responsivity, and how might it be demonstrated?

Question 5

What are the six basic elements of communication, and how do they relate to the "abilities" in question 2?

Question 6

What are four ways in which correctional counselors become more sensitive to the ethnic and cultural diversity of justice-involved people?

Question 7

Discuss the crucial role that both education specialists play as part of the correctional counseling and treatment team.

Question 8

The traditional idea of correctional counseling may not be compatible with the legitimate interests and purposes of helping clients

Question 9

We should view counselors as helping professionals who apply their skills and expertise in correctional and related settings

Question 10

In order to develop a sense of timing, the counselor needs to carefully plan the session ahead of time and play it out exactly as planned

Question 11

According to the authors, communication is the lifeblood of relationships

Question 12

Risking, in a therapeutic sense, is exemplified by a client committing to a serious effort to substantially change attitude and behavior patterns

Question 13

Therapeutic intention may be more important to long-term rehabilitation than immediate outcomes from treatment

Question 14

One of the guiding principles for gender-responsive policies is that gender does not make a difference in terms of counseling correctional clients

Question 15

Meaningful communication most often occurs when we effectively filter people and events through the mindset of our dominant culture

Question 16

Without genuine care and commitment to the helping process, therapeutic outcomes for both the client and counselor will fall short

Question 17

Motivational Interviewing techniques involve the correctional counselor presenting the arguments for change in order to motivate clients

Question 18

Confidentiality is not an issue in the dual role conflict experienced by probation/parole officers

Question 19

To a large extent, institutional counselors are more involved in correctional maintenance than in correctional treatment

Question 20

Typically, a counselor who works in a correctional setting is concerned first with the rehabilitation and treatment needs of the client, and second with the security/custody needs of the agency and community

Question 21

Parole is perhaps most utilized as an alternative to sentencing juveniles and adults to correctional facilities

Question 22

The roles of probation and parole officers are conflictual in that they must maintain a balance between enforcing the conditions of probation or parole, yet provide counseling and guidance services

Question 23

Which of the following is not a focus of therapeutic intervention that might be utilized by a counselor?

A) education and employment
B) mental health concerns
C) prison adjustment
D) none of the above

Question 24

Which of the following is not one of the four essential abilities of counseling, as suggested by the authors?

A) high-quality therapeutic relationships
B) focus on task at hand
C) professional humility
D) effective risking

Question 25

Correctional counseling includes which of the following?

A) creating opportunities for personal and social transformation
B) assisting with institutional adjustment
C) encouraging personal reform
D) all of the above

Question 26

Counselors who demonstrate the key quality of _________ will persevere in their attempts to impart in their clients a desire to do the right thing.

A) expectation
B) sense of timing
C) therapeutic intention
D) contentment

Question 27

Motivational Interviewing is an approach that can be used by correctional counselors to:

A) enhance a client's intrinsic motivation to change.
B) explore and resolve a client's ambivalence about change.
C) elicit change talk from a client.
D) all of the above

Question 28

Parole and probation counseling fall under the _____ category in the correctional setting.

A) institutional
B) community-based
C) prison environment
D) diversion

Question 29

The primary focus of the institutional counselor known as the _________ is often to help incarcerated people survive the stresses of prison life.

A) probation officer
B) parole officer
C) case manager
D) prison chaplain

Question 30

One of the more important roles of the institutional counselor is to:

A) prepare reports for parole boards.
B) initiate revocation proceedings when necessary.
C) assist in the person's transition to the community.
D) none of the above

Question 31

Psychotherapy in the context of correctional counseling includes maintaining the perspective of therapeutic intention as more important than:

A) effectively incorporating the skills of timing and risking.
B) having a clear, professional identity.
C) the outcome of decreased recidivism rates.
D) all of the above

Question 32

The United Nations Economic and Social Council endorses correctional education standards, including:

A) involving the outside community as fully as possible.
B) access to education for all people who are incarcerated.
C) developing the whole person.
D) all of the above

Question 33

The failure of justice-involved people in mainstream educational settings is often the result of:

A) the "treatment versus security" dilemma.
B) misuse of psychotherapy as treatment.
C) the tendency toward recidivism.
D) unaddressed learning disabilities.

Question 34

Which of the following is not one of the four basic categories of treatment programming?

A) reintegration
B) education
C) recreation
D) psychotherapy

Question 35

Which of the following represents a major problem in the area of correction recreation?

A) an increase in physical conflicts among incarcerated individuals.
B) the inability of physically disabled persons to participate.
C) the perception that the recreation specialist is no more than an activity coordinator.
D) the current debate about the effectiveness of recreation as treatment.

Question 36

Outward Bound and Youth Wilderness Programs offer system-impacted juveniles opportunities to engage in socially acceptable group activities. Which of the following is not an opportunity provided by these programs?

A) money management
B) physical conditioning
C) team training
D) technical training

Question 37

In treating a client who requires medication to control a mental disorder, which of the following professionals would be legally qualified to administer such a medication?

A) psychologist
B) clinical social worker
C) psychiatrist
D) psychometricist

Question 38

Which of the following are measurements of effective counseling?

A) information on recidivism
B) statistics on long-term, post-release follow-up
C) both a and b
D) neither a nor b

Question 39

The statistical technique of meta-analysis:

A) corrects methodological problems of individual studies.
B) allows the summarizing of results across studies.
C) creates a statistic to gauge effectiveness of program types.
D) all of the above

Question 40

Practitioners and researchers generally agree that the elements comprising an effective counseling program include:

A) a method for matching the client with a therapist and a program.
B) relapse prevention strategies.
C) focusing intensive intervention on high-risk individuals.
D) all of the above

Question 41

All of the following are ways in which helping professionals can be sensitized to ethnic variations except:

A) suggesting ways in which the operating procedures of the criminal justice system come into conflict with the values and lifestyles of people from specific ethnic backgrounds.
B) clarifying the likely sources of conflict between service providers and clients from specific ethnic groups.
C) enrolling in a foreign language program to communicate better with a specific ethnic group.
D) providing greater understanding of the specific needs of the people from specific backgrounds.

Question 42

What are the guiding principles for gender-responsive policies and programs most relevant to correctional treatment and counseling?

A) acknowledge that gender makes a difference.
B) create environments based on safety, respect, and dignity.
C) address substance abuse, trauma, and mental health issues in an integrated manner.
D) All of the above are gender-responsive approaches.