New book due out shortly – ‘Effective Interventions with Offenders – Lessons Learned’ Edited by Ken McMaster & David Riley, RRP $34.95

Interventions with those who offend are a worthy investment for any civil society. To not invest in intervention is to run the risk of maintaining patterns of behaviour that impact significantly upon the wellbeing and safety of our families, neighbourhoods and communities. This book will be of interest to counsellors, psychologists, social workers and policy planners by exploring a range of issue related to the provision of interventions. While there has been discourse that interventions for those who offend wastes valuable time and resource, the thesis of this book is that with the right matching of intervention with the person who has offended, then positive results are possible. This matching of course takes account of timeliness, cultural, programme intensity, learning styles and dosage.

As we put this book to bed we have a range of interesting chapters including:

Part 1: The issues
The changing nature of interventions
Designing effective interventions
Training intervention staff
The right to intervention
Site implementation issues
Supervision – maintaining safety in practice
How do we evaluate if we have got it right?
Strategies to support those on interventions

Part 2: Special populations
Intervention with domestic violence offenders
Interventions with female offenders
Cultural matching in programmes
Youth offenders
To pre-order your copy email info@hma.co.nz

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