Journey to Release

Counselling in a UK Prison

Mo Smith, Toni Close

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Waterside Press
06 September 2017

Counselling & advice services; Prisons; Rehabilitation of offenders

Journey to Release is an account of Mo Smith's extensive experience counselling and co-ordinating a counselling service inside `HM Prison X'. The book gives a history of the service and looks at what is involved in a project of this kind, making it a `must' for prison professionals and volunteers everywhere. It also provides an insight into the running of an `embedded' prison counselling service and the clients who use it. A first-hand account, it will be of considerable interest to anyone wishing to learn about the subject, whether as an individual, prison professional, volunteer/potential volunteer, or counselling organizer/provider (including from external agencies). Once a prisoner is released from HMP X there is no further contact so the authors emphasise the importance of counselling that survives the prison setting and thus helps to reduce crime in the future. The book will also be of interest to counsellors and volunteers in a range of other settings in the UK and beyond. Based on practical experience, it focuses wholly on counselling as such (rather, e.g. than psychology/mental health-led aspects, intervention, assessment). An invaluable explanation of the `nuts and bolts' of counselling in prison. Examines the challenges facing counsellors working with incarcerated clients. Includes disguised prisoner histories. Attractive easy-to-read format. With contributions from Governors, other staff, counsellors and clients.

By: Mo Smith
Assisted by: Toni Close
Imprint: Waterside Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 8mm
ISBN: 9781909976498
ISBN 10: 1909976490
Pages: 150
Publication Date: 06 September 2017
Audience: Adult education , Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

About the authors; The prison; Forewords by the Governors; Introduction; 1.Why Counsel in Prison?; 2.Safeguards; 3.Providing a Service; 4.Our Clients; 5.Our Counsellors; 6.Ways of Working; 7.Historic Abuse; 8.Life Inside; 9.The Outside; Afterword: Looking Ahead; Index.

Mo Smith FCiPN, Registered Member MBACP (Snr Accred), Cert Ed, Dip Coun, Dip Sup, Dip CBT, Dip Ber has 20 years' experience organizing, driving and running a prison counselling service. Toni Close, MSC Occupational Psychology, BSC Psychology, PGCE (Further Education) helped Mo to write it.

Reviews for Journey to Release: Counselling in a UK Prison

`The Counselling Service at HMP X was something I was very proud of while I was Governor. This book tells you all about it'- Michael Wood, Former Governor; `A hugely informative work'- Neil Thomas, Prison Governor.