NCJ Number
190444
Date Published
1999
Length
117 pages
Annotation
This is a kit of materials for a 12-part course designed to guide inmates and parolees into taking personal responsibility for the relationships in their lives, with the goal of reducing recidivism and facilitating reintegration into society.
Abstract
The materials in the kit are reproducible worksheets, a facilitator's guide, and three videos that contain sessions 1-12 (four sessions in each video). The topics of the videos are "Recognizing Old Behavior Patterns," "Taking Personal Responsibility," and "Being Trustworthy." Session 1 makes the connection between recidivism and healthy relationships. Participants are instructed to examine which relationships are important to them, and they are given the opportunity to both recognize the problems in their own relationships and work to make them better. After session 1, participants will be able to understand that relationships count, discern why they do not know how to make relationships work, and discover that they are personally responsible for making the changes necessary to create relationships that work. Other sessions focus on the nature of love and the characteristics of a loving relationship, factors in "bad" relationships, principles for building good relationships, personal responsibility for the character of relationships, mutuality and cooperation in relationships, skills for relationship building, action to change oneself, relationships and anger, trustworthiness as the key to communication, conflict resolution, and a checklist for making and keeping healthy relationships.