Correctional populations include disproportionate numbers of people with behavioral and mental disorders. But most inmates don't stay incarcerated forever. What can offender treatment providers do that really works to help rehabilitate the inmates in their care—to help these troubled people … and to help ensure the safety and security of the larger community?

Now Civic Research Institute, Inc. (CRI), publisher of Correctional Mental Health Report, The Mentally Disordered Inmate and the Law, and Offender Programs Report, offers a new book, Correctional Psychology: Practice, Programming, and Administration, written and edited by leading correctional psychologists and program providers with years of hands-on experience working with inmate populations.

Correctional Psychology: Practice, Programming, and Administration provides in-depth coverage of the full array of issues correctional psychologists face—from program development to staff training and development, from suicide prevention to dealing with gangs, from work with substance abusers to services for the developmentally disabled--in the provision of psychological services to the broad range of offender populations. This essential reference offers “field-tested” solutions to clinical and programmatic concerns, with specific guidance on treatment modalities that work.

About the Editor: Barbara K. Schwartz, Ph.D., has been treating sex offenders since 1971 and has directed statewide sex offender treatment programs for Departments of Correction in New Mexico, Washington State, and Massachusetts. She is President of Public Safety Concepts, a corporation that directs sex offender programs for the Departments of Correction in New Jersey and Missouri. She is the former director of justice programs for Justice Resource Institute of Boston; in that capacity she directed programs for involuntarily committed sexually dangerous persons as well as incarcerated offenders throughout Massachusetts. Dr. Schwartz has She has authored, edited, and co-edited five major books in the field of sex offender treatment, as well as numerous articles and conference presentations.

Correctional Psychology: Practice, Programming, and Administration (ISBN 1-887554-36-X; hardcover; 514 pp.; price: $125 plus $8.95 postage and handling). This volume may be kept current through additional volumes sent to purchasers automatically on approval. To order or to request copies for review in professional journals, contact Civic Research Institute, Inc., at P.O. Box 585, Kingston, NJ 08528; phone: (609) 683-4450; fax: (609) 683-7291.