Cognitive Self Change, How Offenders Experience the World and What We Can Do About It by Bush, Jack -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction

Understanding Offending Behavior Hard-Core Cognitive Self Change A Human Connection Phenomenology and Self-reports: Some Preliminary Comments about Method Summary of Chapters

Chapter 1: The Idea of Criminal Thinking

Ellis, Beck, and Antisocial Schemas Psychopathology or Irresponsibility An Alternative Point of View

Chapter 2: Offenders Speak their Minds

Seven Male Offenders Three Young Women Three Violent Mental Health Patients Two Problematic Groups Three British Gang Members Conclusions and Interpretations

Chapter 3: Cognitive–Emotional–Motivational Structure

The Idea of Conscious Agency: a Likely Story Will and Volition, Self and Self-interest The Model Basic Outlaw Logic: Learning the Rewards of Criminal Thinking Variations of Criminal Thinking Conclusions and Implications

Chapter 4: Supportive Authority and the Strategy of Choices

The Problem of Engagement Conditions of Communication and Engagement Supportive Authority Rethinking Correctional Treatment The Strategy of Choices Final Comments

Chapter 5: Cognitive Self Change

Chapter 6: Extended Applications of Supportive Authority

Why Offenders Need Help Not Either/Or: Some Promising Examples The System as the Intervention: Some Recent Examples Supportive Authority, Revisited An Idealistic Proposal (with modest expectations)

Chapter 7: How We Know

Introduction Cognitive Self Change The Significance of Subjectivity Science and Subjectivity

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