Deck 3: Community Corrections Officers As Change Agents

Question 1

Discuss one of the 5 Core Correctional Practices and discuss why it is important for behavioral change among clients.

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

What does being "firm, fair, and caring" mean to you?

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Describe what is meant by the "dual-role" orientation."

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

When a person is authoritative, how is that different than being authoritarian?

Question 5

Review Box 3.2 and come up with more distinctions between being a referee versus a coach. First, think in terms of sports and/or learning an instrument, and then relate these traits back to dual-role orientation of community corrections officers.

Question 6

Engage in a 5-minute focused freewrite, writing down everything that comes to mind with the prompt, "What is Motivational Interviewing?" Do not write using sentences- instead, write ideas and thoughts without worrying about grammar or spelling.

Question 7

Most people who are justice-involved are serving sentences on probation or parole

Question 8

The surveillance only approach is very effective at reducing recidivism for clients on community supervision

Question 9

Community supervision officers should act more like referees rather than coaches when working with clients

Question 10

Appropriate modeling is when supervision officers and staff actively model prosocial attitudes and behaviors around clients

Question 11

The relationship between the client and staff member should remain professional, maintain healthy boundaries, be genuine, respectful, open, warm, and understanding

Question 12

Models of supervision (i.e., STARR, STICS, EPICS) provide a standardized model for translating best practices, including core correctional practices, with clients who are incarcerated

Question 13

The program STARR contains four components (check-in, review, intervention, and homework) to guide community supervision officers when working with clients

Question 14

Community supervision officers are asked to not only hold clients accountable, but also engage in structured interventions with clients to build skills as part of the dual role orientation

Question 15

The ideal dual role orientation relationship is when the office is authoritarian, but not authoritative.

Question 16

When staff are authoritative with clients, they have a command presence, but are flexible to problems that arise

Question 17

Evidence-based supervision means blending control with care and treating clients in a firm, fair, and caring manner

Question 18

Motivational Interviewing is a way of communicating with people to facilitate extrinsic motivation to change their behavior

Question 19

Motivational Interviewing begins with an understanding that most people are simply resistant to change, not necessarily ambivalent to change.

Question 20

Motivational Interviewing is something that staff engages in with clients rather than on clients.

Question 21

Recognizing the absolute worth of a client means understanding that the client is the expert in their own life

Question 22

It is okay for staff to judge clients for what they did as long as they do not make it obvious

Question 23

Most justice-involved people have been victims themselves at some point in time and have overcome significant adversity

Question 24

When officers adopt a human service focus and take on the role of change agents, their clients are more likely to complete their supervision and abstain from future criminal justice-involvement

Question 25

In strengths-based approaches, it is important to focus primarily on problems that need to be changed when working with clients

Question 26

At the end of the day, custody and supervision staff are solely law enforcers, whereas mental health and social work staff are the change agents

Question 27

Community supervision means that the client is serving a sentence:

A) on probation or parole
B) in jail
C) in prison
D) in a detention center

Question 28

Out of all the adults in the United States under correctional control, approximately how many of those adults are on community supervision?

A) 6.7 million
B) 4.5 million
C) 2.3 million
D) 1.5 million

Question 29

Community supervision agencies can better reflect human service work through integrating dual roles of law enforcement and ___________________.

A) refereeing
B) surveillance
C) change agents
D) supervision

Question 30

Which of the following caused community corrections agencies to emphasize law enforcement and surveillance over rehabilitation?

A) increase in caseloads
B) "Get Tough on Crime" political/social movement
C) limited resources
D) all of the above

Question 31

All of the following are steps that human service professionals take to help clients become more self-reliant and self-sufficient, except:

A) evaluate needs
B) develop treatment/case management plan
C) punish when they violate probation/parole stipulations
D) provide support along the way

Question 32

How many core components of effective correctional intervention were identified by Andrews and Kiessling (1980)?

A) four
B) five
C) six
D) eight

Question 33

Evidence-based corrections means implementing techniques focused on:

A) rehabilitation
B) core correctional practices
C) both a and b
D) none of the above

Question 34

When intervention staff participate in role-playing exercises to allow clients to practice prosocial skills, which core component of correctional intervention is staff exemplifying?

A) appropriate modeling
B) appropriate reinforcement
C) relationship factors
D) effective use of community resources

Question 35

Who is often responsible for connecting people with appropriate treatment and services within the community?

A) themselves
B) case managers and correctional staff
C) other justice-involved individuals
D) family members.

Question 36

Dowden and Andrews (2004) claim that correctional interventions are most effective when ______________ exists between the officer/staff member and the client.

A) boundaries
B) mutual respect
C) problem-solving
D) structured learning

Question 37

All of the following are standardized models of supervision developed to guide community corrections staff when working with clients, except:

A) STICS
B) STARR
C) EPICS
D) SPSS

Question 38

Which model of supervision was designed specifically for federal community supervision officers and focuses on teaching officers techniques and skills rooted in core correctional practices?

A) STICS
B) STARR
C) EPICS
D) SPSS

Question 39

The ideal dual role orientation relationship between staff and clients should be:

A) firm
B) fair
C) caring
D) all of the above

Question 40

A natural part of the change process where people are unsure if they want to change.

A) ambivalence
B) resistance
C) acceptance
D) evocation

Question 41

A central element to Motivational Interviewing that conveys an understanding that staff and clients are working together in a collaborative way towards positive change.

A) partnership
B) acceptance
C) compassion
D) evocation

Question 42

Having a genuine curiosity about learning who the client is and their inner world is:

A) absolute worth
B) autonomy-support
C) accurate empathy
D) affirmation

Question 43

This indicates a belief that individuals already have within them everything they need to move toward positive change.

A) partnership
B) acceptance
C) compassion
D) evocation

Question 44

This approach recognizes that all people have strengths and abilities within them to change, regardless of what they have done or been through in their past.

A) strengths-based
B) holistic
C) motivational
D) sympathetic

Question 45

Clients are more likely to complete their supervision and abstain from future criminal justice-involvement when officers:

A) establish a dual role orientation.
B) establish a firm, fair, and caring relationship with clients.
C) take on the role of a change agent.
D) all of the above.

Question 46

Which of the following is a goal of evocation in Motivational Interviewing?

A) helping clients activate the strengths, values, and abilities to move forward.
B) focus only on the problems that need to be changed.
C) understand why they committed the crimes in the first place.
D) all of the above.