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Doctor Changing Prison Thinking
By delconewsnetwork.com
Published: 07/30/2010

Dr. Foster “Jerry” Nowell chips away at prison thinking, looking beyond the 12-inch high white DOC monogram across the backs of his clients’ brown uniforms and sees good human beings who have made disastrous choices.

Prison thinking, stumbling blocks to personal growth and change for the good, include the, ‘Woe is me’ syndrome that traps prisoners inside a self-made emotional jail.

School administrator, eighty-something year-young Nowell whose life-blood is teaching, missed the classroom following retirement. But he regained his niche by volunteering to teach prison inmates to make better decisions through Thresholds. The national organization was started by Milton “Mickey” Burglass, a former inmate in a New Orleans prison.

The Thresholds program uses a six-step model to: define situations: set realistic goals; develop possibilities for problem solving; evaluate those possibilities; make the appropriate decision; and implement the decision.

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Comments:

  1. keatonjefferson on 03/25/2020:

    He has been attributed to the best CBD edibles as he is the first person to devise the methodology. If it was to for him, there would still be so many people dealing with stress.


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