A Treatment Manual for Justice Involved Persons with Mental Illness: Changing Lives and Changing Outcomes - Paperback

by Robert D. Morgan (Author), Ronald Roesch (Editor), Daryl Kroner (Author)

Please click on the Companion Website link above or visit www.routledge.com/cw/morgan to access the companion workbook, Changing Lives, Changing Outcomes: A Treatment Program for Justice-Involved Persons with Mental Illness.

A Treatment Manual for Justice Involved Persons with Mental Illness comprises a comprehensive and structured treatment manual that provides clinicians a guide for treating justice involved persons with mental illness. The manual includes a treatment plan for each session with specific structured exercises (for both in-group and out of group work) designed to teach objectives each session. The program incorporates a psychosocial rehabilitation model, social learning paradigm and cognitive-behavioral model for change, although cognitive behavioral theory is more prevalent and apparent throughout the manual.

Additional training on Changing Lives and Changing Outcomes: A Treatment Program for Justice-Involved Persons with Mental Illness is available at https: //www.gifrinc.com/clco.

Author Biography

Robert Morgan is the John G. Skelton, Jr. Regents Endowed Professor in Psychology, Chairperson for the Department of Psychological Sciences, and directs the Institute for Forensic Science at Texas Tech University. Dr. Morgan's research and scholarly activities include treatment and assessment of justice involved persons with mental illness, forensic mental health assessment, and professional development and training issues.

Daryl Kroner is in full-time clinical practice within the Canadian correctional system. In addition to his clinical duties he has published over70 peer-reviewed papers covering topics related to offender psychological violence and risk assessment.

Jeremy F. Mills works at a medium security correctional facility and has a private practice in forensic and counseling psychology and has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers covering topics related to offender assessment.