| Description |
1 online resource (149 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Why Counsel in Prison? -- 2. Safeguards -- 3. Providing a Service -- 4. Our Clients -- 5. Our Counsellors -- 6. Ways of Working -- 7. Historic Abuse -- 8. Life Inside -- 9. The Outside -- Afterword: Looking Ahead -- Further Reading -- Index -- Transgender Behind Prison Walls -- The Little Book of Prison -- Suicide in Prisons. |
| Summary |
Journey to Release is an account of Mo Smith's extensive experience counselling and co-ordinating a counselling service inside 'HM Prison X'. The book gives a history of the service and looks at what is involved in a project of this kind, making it a 'must' for prison professionals and volunteers everywhere. It also provides an insight into the running of an 'embedded' prison counselling service and the clients who use it. A first-hand account, it will be of considerable interest to anyone wishing to learn about the subject, whether as an individual, prison professional, volunteer/potential volunteer, or counselling organizer/provider (including from external agencies). Once a prisoner is released from HMP X there is no further contact so the authors emphasise the importance of counselling that survives the prison setting and thus helps to reduce crime in the future. The book will also be of interest to counsellors and volunteers in a range of other settings in the UK and beyond. Based on practical experience, it focuses wholly on counselling as such (rather, e.g. than psychology/mental health-led aspects, intervention, assessment). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prisoners -- Counseling of -- Great Britain.
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Prisoners -- Counseling of. |
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Great Britain. |
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Prisoners. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Close, Toni.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Mo. Journey to Release : Counselling in a UK Prison. Hook, UK : Waterside Press, ©2017 9781909976498 |
| ISBN |
9781910979433 (electronic book) |
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1910979430 (electronic book) |
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9781910979440 |
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1910979449 |
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1909976490 |
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9781909976498 |
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