{"product_id":"cognitive-self-change-by-jack-bush-9780470974810","title":"Cognitive Self Change","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The consensus amongst the leading researchers in the offender treatment area is that the comprehensive and sophisticated clinical methods the authors have derived for offender treatment are unsurpassed. Indeed, they have formed the basis for what is known as the core correctional practices for reducing anti-social behaviour.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cb\u003ePaul Gendreau,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eProfessor Emeritus, University of New Brunswick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Bush and colleagues’ phenomenologically based approach to offender rehabilitation is based explicitly on the stories they have collected from prisoners and probationers and is a welcome contribution to an academic literature that too often obfuscates the actual work involved in delivering help to the hardest to reach in the criminal justice system.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cb\u003eShadd Maruna, Ph.D.,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDean of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCognitive Self Change\u003c\/i\u003e presents a practical guide to rehabilitation based on understanding the way individual offenders experience themselves and the world around them at the moment they offend. De-incentivising criminal behaviour and replacing it with self-empowered change are the keys to upending the traditionally antagonistic relationship between criminals and those meant to help them change. The authors, with their experience of working with offenders and implementing rehabilitation programmes, have drawn together clinical and academic perspectives on the treatment of high-risk offenders, analysing current approaches to treatment and the problems encountered in their application.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCognitive Self Change\u003c\/i\u003e rejects the traditional dichotomy of control versus treatment, devising instead a strategy that integrates both. Focusing on high-risk and “hard-core” offenders, not just those that are “ready to change,” they discuss why offenders offend, why they are seldom motivated to change, and why they often fail to engage in treatment. This leads to a strategy of communication that teaches offenders a set of skills they can use to change themselves, and that motivates them to do so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47647693734124,"sku":"9780470974810","price":92.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780470974810-cognitive-self-change.jpg?v=1779230183","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/cognitive-self-change-by-jack-bush-9780470974810","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}