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COSIG Co-Occurring Disorders Conference, Hershey PA, May 15-17, 2006
Eliciting self-motivating
statements
• What are you listening for?
– Problem recognition:
– Expression of concern:
– Intention to change:
– Optimism about change:
Offender Change
Change is Not Always Easy
• We saw our more senior Probation Officers as
having better interviewing skills.
– Some of them were quite resistant to the training and
could not demonstrate the basic skills
• This is changing in time
– Union issues emerged
• Managers are key and we are spending large
amounts of time with them and with Effective
Communication
Treatment Agencies
• Substance Abuse Agencies moving much
quicker than the MH providers
• Focus on what works with our population
still in infancy
• Discussion around requiring therapist to
whom we refer to have gone through
Basic Training
References
Effective Communication
From Ray Ferns, CEO, Restorative Correctional Services, Effective
Communication, Motivation Strategies In Assessing and
Overcoming Resistance To Change, Co-authors, Mark Gornik and
Deena Cheney. Ray is the consultant/trainer funded by NIC to
conduct our training events in 2005
Social Learning Theory
From the work of Albert Bandura, Ph. D, Stanford University
Criminal Logic
From the work of Dr. Stanton Samenow, Ph. D, author of Inside The
Criminal Mind (NY: Times Books/ Random House, 1984, 2004)
References
Stages of Change
From the introductory work of James O. Prochaska and Carlo
DiClemente, 1982—in intervening years applied by Prochaska ,
DiClemente and others to a variety of fields of study.
What Works
From the work of D.A. Andrews and James Bonta, The Psychology of
Criminal Conduct, Anderson Publishing Co., 1994, 1998, 2003.
From the research and work of many others, mostly out of Canada,
who have been identified with the “What Works” movement that has
promoted concepts such as the “Risk Principle”, including Paul
Gendreau, Ph.D., University of New Brunswick.
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