Health Sciences 1001A/B Lecture Notes - Amygdala, Anxiety Disorder, Family Values
23 Apr 2014
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Crimes: possession of stolen property, break and entering, car theft, assault, narcotics possession, breach of probation, attempted murder, murder. Worked with them from between 2 weeks and 2 months. Data collection: content analysis of journal entries" (family, violence, drugs, sex, world view/future, racism, friends, freedom, reform, influences of incarceration) Personal observations (guards, inmates, mental health specialists, administrators) Personal opinion: many of the 16-18 year old men and women i worked with were beyond rehabilitation but efforts short still be taken to reform their destructive ways. Provided our treatment efforts are not na ve; that such efforts take into account the variety of factors that contribute and contributed to how they got where they were, positive change may be possible. The deleterious effects of incarceration: rehabilitation in prison is severely compromised. The attitudes of the inmates about themselves and one another, in addition to those of correctional officers toward the inmates impaired psychological and behavioural change.
