Xiang Long Cheng & Gabriel Ong 
CORRECTIONAL REHABILITATION & PSYCHOLOGICAL … [EPUB ebook] 
Practitioners’ Experiences in Singapore Prison Service

Psychologists and correctional rehabilitation specialists in the Psychological and Correctional Rehabilitation Division of the Singapore Prison Service have been instrumental in designing and delivering the rehabilitation work with offenders. This book seeks to capture these experiences in the area of rehabilitation, and the anecdotal experiences working with different groups of offenders on the ground.

It provides a first-hand look at the application of offender rehabilitation principles in practice. It also provides details on the experiences and challenges of working in a correctional context through the anecdotal sharing. To this end, the book aims to provide a practical and practitioner lens, overlaid with theoretical concepts, to the practice of correctional rehabilitation. While there have been experiences and insights documented, this will be the first book that documents the anecdotal experiences in Singapore Prison Service.

Contents:

• Introduction to Theory and Practice Behind Correctional Rehabilitation:
  
  
  
  • Introduction to Correctional Rehabilitation in Singapore Prison Service (Loh Eng Hao and Cheng Xiang Long)
  
  
  • Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Psychology-Based Correctional Programmes in Singapore Prison Service (Farhanis Ahmad)
  
  


• Working with Different Offender Populations:
  
  
  
  • Working with Offenders: An Overview (Troy Thevathasan and Karam Singh)
  
  
  • Working with High-Risk Criminal Offenders: Challenges and Insights (Mariam Mohammad Mazlan, Woo Wan Xin, Gayethri B and Nabilah Ahmad)
  
  
  • Working with Drug Abusers (Alicia Tan Jia Hui and Lee Kang Qi)
  
  
  • Working with Young Offenders: Challenges and Insights (Fatima Jaini and Goh Ruo Ting)
  
  
  • Working with Women Offenders (Josephine Overee and Charlotte Stephen)
  
  
  • Working with Adult Violent Offenders (Gopalakrishnan Sharmala and Rashida Mohamed Zain)
  
  
  • Sexual Offender Intervention in Singapore Prison Service (Ng Kend Tuck, Priyathanaa Kalyanasundram, Paul Yong and Lin Xiangbin)
  
  
  • Working with Offenders with Mental Health Issues (Kwek Boon Siang, Rashida Mohamed Zain, Georgina Tay and Jessie Yeung)
  
  


• Preparing the System for Correctional Rehabilitation:
  
  
  
  • Developing the Practitioner in Correctional Rehabilitation (Tang Hwee Wern)
  
  
  • Equipping Correctional Officers (Cindy Toh and Wayne Ferroa)
  
  

Readership: Government officials involved in national safety and security, prison administrators, and prisons staff in Southeast Asia, across Asia Pacific, and across Europe and North America who are involved in the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders; Academics who are interested in offender rehabilitation, offender research, and correctional systems; Academics are who engaged in teaching about correctional psychology or corrections; Practitioners both in prison systems or in community agencies who conduct rehabilitation and reintegration work with offenders; Undergraduate and Postgraduate students who are engaged in study or research on offender rehabilitation and reintegration, correctional psychology, criminal / forensic psychology, correctional social work, or security-related subjects.

’This book is not just about the 'head knowledge’ that guides rehabilitation work, but also reflects the 'heart’ elements of the people involved. Within these pages, we get a glimpse of the challenges in rehabilitation work and the feedback given by inmates. One gets a taste of the 'person of the therapist’ and sees the 'genuine concern for the offender’ incarnated into the practice of rehabilitation.’ – Associate Professor Timothy Leo School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences Singapore University of Social Sciences

'Correctional Rehabilitation and Psychological Interventions in Singapore, presents a unique and detailed insight into the challenges and innovative responses surrounding the delivery of mental health and rehabilitation initiatives aimed at offenders who enter the Singapore Prison system. Although much of the book is dedicated to detailing the journey taken by the Singapore Prison Service toward the development of a responsive counselling and psychological intervention model, there are a number of elements of the publication which provide useful information for other prison services.’ – Associate Professor Jeffrey Pfeifer Department of Psychological Sciences Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

'The programs and services of the Singapore Prison Service are some of the best in the world. This book reveals why — the attention to a theory of how to help people change, to ensuring that programs are designed with integrity, and to contribute to an understanding of how to implement quality programming in prisons. This book outlines the secret sauce, and makes other correctional agencies envious of the high performing Singapore Prison Service.’ – Professor Faye S. Taxman, Ph DDirector, Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence George Mason University, Washington, USA

Key Features:

• Provides an insight into the theoretical underpinning of SPS’ rehabilitation work, and the day-to-day work of a psychologist and a correctional rehabilitation specialist within SPS


• Majority of publications in the field provides a Western perspective on the rehabilitation work. This book will provide a unique perspective of rehabilitation of an Asian institution, how we adapted and made sense of the theories and its application in an Asian context, and the unique challenges and issues our correctional rehabilitation specialists grapple with when working with our offenders


• Serves as a contextualised reading for relevant university courses on Correctional Psychology in Singapore