This 5 day course trains practitioners in applying the Reasoning and Rehabilitation programme. The R&R programme is designed to build thinking or “cognitive” skills in a progressive manner and to move offenders through stages of change – from accepting the existence of problems, decision-making about choices, taking action, maintaining new behaviours, and preventing relapse through learning to monitor and self-correct thinking in new situations. The programme is suitable for male offenders. It is suitable for highly convicted offenders as well as those who are medium to high-risk.

Description

_Learning Outcomes _

The training for delivery of this programme is very participatory, “hands on” and intensive. Novice facilitators are expected to prepare mini-presentations to demonstrate their mastery of style and methods of delivery. There is an emphasis during training not just on theory and content, but also on process of effective delivery, particularly as it relates to learning a motivational, enquiring, and non-judgmental manner of interacting with clients in order to instill interest in learning new thinking skills.

_Target Audience _

This workshop is aimed at psychologists, nurses, key workers and frontline mental health staff interested in delivering cognitive group based programmes.

Speakers
DR FRANK PORPORINO has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Queen’s University and has specialized for the last 30 years in the application of sound research knowledge to correctional and criminal justice practice. His public sector career began in 1974 as a psychologist in Canada’s oldest maximum-security prison, Kingston Penitentiary. Frank was Director General of Research for the Correctional Service of Canada and, in 1993, Frank co-founded T3 Associates Training and Consulting Inc. in order to disseminate the cognitive model and provide other research-based training and technical assistance in effective practice to correctional jurisdictions internationally. For the last 8 years he has been a member of the Correctional Services Accreditation Panel in the UK.