Beyond Violence+ (eBook)

A Prevention Program for Justice-Involved Women and Gender-Diverse People, Participant's Workbook

Stephanie S. Covington (Autor)

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2025 | 2. Auflage
353 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-394-23080-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A gender-responsive, trauma-informed path forward for incarcerated women

Beyond Violence: A Prevention Program for Criminal Justice-Involved Women is a comprehensive, evidence-based program specifically designed to meet the unique needs of women in correctional settings who have committed a violent crime. In 20 carefully designed sessions, it identifies personal factors correlated with violence, examines the importance of relationships, and explores how violence can manifest in various settings. This package includes both a step-by-step Facilitator Guide and a Participant Workbook. Beyond Violence encourages active participation, leading women to a deeper understanding of violence and of themselves.

Author Stephanie Covington is nationally recognized for her expertise in creating, implementing, and facilitating women's treatment programs. In Beyond Violence, she offers counselors, mental health professionals, and program administrators the tools they need to implement this respected program within the criminal justice system. Participants will:

• Understand the relationships between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors-with a focus on anger and violence
• Learn new skills, including communication, conflict resolution, decision making, and calming soothing techniques
• Discover the effects of our families, our relationships, communities, and the larger society on our lives
• Become part of a group of women working to create a less violent world.

The Facilitator's Guide contains the theory, structure, and content needed to run effective groups. The Participant's Workbook is designed so that women can process, record, and refer back to their therapeutic experience.

Textauszug

Orientation Session

Introduction to the Program

Beyond Violence+: A Prevention Program for Justice‐Involved Women and Gender‐Diverse People is designed to help you look at the effects of violence in your life and to create an opportunity for you to make changes to prevent violence in the future. The program is divided into four parts: Self, Relationships, Community, and Society. These four content areas will guide you in understanding important issues relating to violence in the lives of many women and gender‐diverse people both inside and outside your program group.

During this program, you will attend this orientation session and 26 additional sessions with the members of your group. With them, you will have new experiences and learn new ways of looking at the world. The facilitator conducting the sessions has experience working with those who have reacted with force toward others and understands the issues.

Taking part in this group will allow you to explore how seeing and experiencing violence in your life has affected you and the decisions you have made. You will find support from others in your group. As you explore important issues together, you will learn new ways to cope and better ways to make decisions. You will experience a greater sense of power, inner strength, and peace.

Although this program is designed for use in a group, it is also possible to do the work individually if there is not a group available for you. As you begin this session, take a minute or two to give yourself time to unwind, relax, and focus on where you are now. Just get settled in the way that feels best for you. Allow yourself to notice how you’re breathing and then inhale gently and exhale fully. Repeat the breathing exercise two more times.

Please note: There also are yoga poses that you can do on your own. See the pictures and instructions at the back of this workbook. These are very good tools for stress reduction and relaxation. Enjoy!

Overview of the Program

The Beyond Violence+ program aims:

• To provide a place for you to reflect and learn more about yourself
• To provide information to help you to better understand the relationships between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
• To help you to understand the effects of your family, your relationships, your community, and the larger society on your life
• To help you understand more about the roles of anger and violence in your life
• To provide an opportunity for you to learn new skills, including skills in communication, conflict resolution, decision‐making, and calming or self‐soothing techniques
• To help you become part of a group of people working to create a less violent world

Your Workbook

This workbook is a place for you to record your experiences during the journey that you are about to begin in the Beyond Violence+ program. Using this workbook will help you to remember what you learn, think, and feel. The workbook contains:

• Some of the activities you will do during the group sessions
• Summaries of information that you will receive in the group sessions
• Questions and activities for you to do after each session

The activities will help you to examine many parts of your life. There are no right or wrong answers, and your responses will not be checked. You may be asked to share some of your responses in the group sessions, but this is voluntary, and other group members will be sharing as well. You do not need to worry about your handwriting or spelling. This workbook is a tool to help you with your growth and recovery.

You will keep your workbook to use between sessions. It is your responsibility to remember to bring your workbook to each group session.

If you are concerned about confidentiality by keeping your workbook with you, please discuss this with the group facilitator.

Group Introductions

The following are questions you can answer as a way to introduce yourself to the group. This introduction allows you and the other group members to begin to get to know one another. This program is created for women and gender‐diverse people. We invite you to share your pronouns when you introduce yourselves.

If you are using this workbook on your own, read the questions and think about how you would introduce yourself to others.

My name: ________________________________________________________________

When and where I was born: ________________________________________________

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How I identify myself (including culture, ethnicity, race, and your pronouns if you want to include them): _____________________________________________________

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The people in my family (can include a spouse or partner, children, parent(s), sibling(s), or whomever you consider your immediate family): __________________

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If you are currently living in prison and have been here for a very long time, you may want to identify which persons you consider your family or best friends in the facility to be: __________________________________________________

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One thing I like about myself or a special gift that I have: _______________________

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Topics Covered in This Program

1. How our thoughts and feelings affect our behaviors
2. How to better manage our feelings, especially the powerful and painful ones
3. The effects of families and relationships on our lives
4. Information about abusive and healthy relationships
5. The role of anger in our lives
6. The effects of our communities on our lives, including support for violence in our communities
7. Making amends and restitution
8. Envisioning a more peaceful world

Group Agreements

Your facilitator explained the purpose of group agreements. These describe behaviors that will help the group to be a safe, respectful, and supportive space for each group member. Please write down the agreements from your group on the next page. When doing this alone, you may want to think about the kind of agreements you would want in a group. You also can list the goals you have for yourself while working through this program. Or you can skip this section.

Our Group Agreements

There are three agreements that are important to any group:

1. Confidentiality. Group members need to honor one another’s confidentiality. What is said in this room stays in this room. No personal information revealed in this room may be repeated outside this room.
2. Sobriety. No one may attend a group session while under the influence of alcohol or another drug.
3. Safety. There will be no physical or emotional abuse. Part of safety is showing respect for one another and for the uniqueness of each person’s thoughts, feelings,...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Schlagworte: criminal workbook • domestic violence workbook women • female violent offenders • Incarcerated Women • violence group therapy • Violence treatment • violence treatment program • violence workbook • violent offender workbook • women violent offenders
• ISBN-10: 1-394-23080-X / 139423080X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-394-23080-8 / 9781394230808