Probation Workbooks
Bennion Kearny is pleased to introduce a new series of workbooks, designed for Probation and Youth Offending professionals, which aim to help address and reduce patterns of reoffending.
Written by experienced Probation Officers – Jonathan Hussey and Jo Richardson – these books will become a valuable tool in the challenge faced when addressing offending behaviour. These workbooks also have application within appropriate prison and school environments.
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Victim Awareness Workbook
Increasing the understanding of the impact that someone’s behaviour has on another person’s is becoming an increasingly important tool for practitioners who attempt to reduce both reoffending and other general problematic behaviours.
Its importance can be seen in the Probation Services, Youth Offending Services, Prisons and even schools who have decided to promote and implement aspects of an intervention called Restorative Justice (RJ). Using RJ, however, comes at a huge cost. This can be seen in both the training of staff to deliver it and also in the time required to undertake the intervention. So what are the alternatives?
This workbook offers creative solutions for practitioners who are working with perpetrators of offending, or other problematic and antisocial behaviour, on a one-to-one basis. It benefits from exercises that the practitioner can use with adults and young people (15+) which are easy to follow, powerful and adaptable to all different learning styles. Simply pick it up, and go!
Content Includes: The Cycle of Change, Cognitive Distortions, The Ripple Effect, and how to deliver exercises through techniques such as Motivational Interviewing.
Exercises and Out of Session Exercises include:
– My Trigger Triangle
– Perspective Taking
– Direct and Indirect Victims
– Effects of Crime on Different People
– The ‘What If’ Flowchart
…and many more.
Paperback: 154 pages | (11 Mar 2013) Language: English | ISBN-13: 978-1909125186 | £9.99
Alcohol Awareness Workbook
Increasing a client’s understanding into the impact that alcohol use can have on both health and behaviour is becoming an increasingly important tool for practitioners who attempt to reduce both reoffending and related problematic behaviours.
Its importance can be seen in the Probation Services, Youth Offending Services, Prisons and even schools, where the negative consequences of drinking alcohol are often most keenly felt, and where interventions to tackle this growing issue can be effectively implemented.
This workbook offers creative solutions for practitioners who work with clients identified as having problematic alcohol use, and individuals where this has led to offending, or other problematic and antisocial behaviours. It contains exercises that the practitioner can use with adults and young people (15+) on a one-to-one basis.
The exercises are easy to follow, powerful, and adaptable to all different learning styles. Simply pick it up, and go! Background into The Cycle of Change, Cognitive Distortions, and how to deliver exercises through techniques such as Motivational Interviewing. In turn Brief Interventions and the delivery of this technique is covered. All exercises are presented with an alternative to support the practitioner in delivering them to different learning styles.
Exercises and Out of Session Exercises include:
– My Trigger Triangle
– Decision Scale
– Understanding Alcohol
– Goal Setting
– High Risk Situations
– Changing General Behaviour
…and many more.
Paperback: 144 pages | (16 Apr 2013) Language: English | ISBN-13: 978-1909125261 | £9.99
Thinking Skills Workbook
Thinking Skills, and addressing identified thinking skill deficits, form the basis of much of the rehabilitative work done with those who commit offences and anti-social behaviour. For a practitioner, being able to effectively challenge this area in a constructive manner with the client is an important tool, alongside linking work done in any session with the client’s ‘real life’ and environment.The importance of thinking skills as a foundation for interventions, and for building further focussed interventions, can be seen in the Probation Service, Youth Offending Services, Prisons and even schools, where individuals with the greatest needs are often found and highlighted.
This workbook offers creative and memorable solutions for practitioners who work with clients identified as having problematic, or deficits, in thinking skills – where this has led offending, or other problematic and antisocial behaviours. It contains exercises that the practitioner can use with adults and young people (15+) on a one-to-one basis or within a small group.
The exercises are easy to follow, powerful, and adaptable to different learning styles. Simply pick it up, and go!
Background into The Cycle of Change, Cognitive Distortions, and how to deliver exercises through techniques such as Motivational Interviewing. Further reading on the background of strategies to tackle offending behaviour is also included.
All exercises are presented with an alternative to support the practitioner in delivering them to different learning styles.
Exercises and Out of Session Exercises include:
– My Trigger Triangle
– Problem solving sequence
– Consequential thinking
– Decision scale
– Reflections
…and many more.
Paperback: 130 pages | (2 May 2013) Language: English | ISBN-13: 978-1909125308 | £9.99
Social Skills Workbook
Sometimes, it can be taken for granted that people are able to manage, cope, or deal with, the variety of challenges and problems that everyday life can throw their way. But how do people know how to use such skills if they have never been taught them? Or, how can we improve such skills when they are already present?
Arguably, it is by increasing the individual’s ability to manage the variety of difficult and sometimes complex situations in day-to-day life that supports the personal choice of not resorting to problematic or even offending behaviour. This workbook offers creative solutions for practitioners who work with clients identified as having general deficits in their thinking skills, and an inability to cope with day-to-day problems within the community. It contains a blend of practical exercises and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) skills that the practitioner can use with adults and young people (15+) on a one-to-one basis to help support them with their problems. The exercises are easy to follow, powerful and adaptable to different learning styles. Simply pick the book up, and go!
Background into The Cycle of Change, Cognitive Distortions, Socialisation, and how to deliver exercises through techniques such as Motivational Interviewing.
Exercises include:
– Understanding how to change behaviour
– Conversations
– Controlling angry feelings
– Managing stress
– Increasing self-confidence
…and more.
Paperback: 158 pages | Language: English | ISBN-13: 978-1-909125-68-1 | £9.99
Employment Workbook
Getting back into work, or accessing education, whether for the first time or after a break, can seem like a big and potentially insurmountable step for some.
However, it can be a critical one along the path to desistance, with research supporting the importance of stable employment as part of rehabilitation. The particular issues faced by offenders present an added challenge to practitioners supporting their clients in this process. Getting the balance of motivation, realism and direction right can be difficult.
Employment has to be more than just a ‘job’. Factoring it in as a positive change means enabling someone to find a position which incorporates, or encourages, their interests. It is this which garners the client’s interest and increases their motivation to overcome obstacles and achieve their goals.
This workbook is designed specifically with offenders in mind, however it is applicable to anyone who is career hunting. It covers all aspects of job hunting, from finding a career to CV writing and disclosing convictions; providing a structured manner in which to collate the required information. This workbook also approaches the subject with a unique twist on the usual ETE work through exercises to motivate, inspire, as well as manage feelings of rejection.Content Includes
Background into The Cycle of Change, Cognitive Distortions, and how to deliver exercises through techniques such as Motivational Interviewing.
It contains exercises that the practitioner can use with adults and young people (15+) on a one-to-one basis or within a small group.
Exercises include:
– Career Direction
– Overcoming Adversity
– CV Writing
– Interviews
– Disclosure of Convictions
…and more.
Paperback: 134 pages | (19 Sep 2013) Language: English | ISBN-13: 978-1909125476 | £9.99
Book Categories: Probation.