This article presents the first review of the Creative Group Work (CGW) training program for facilitators who provide group-based intervention programs to offenders in Corrective Services New South Wales, Australia. The program emphasizes the interpersonal aspects of group work and seeks to equip facilitators to engage with participants in a way…

Surveys literature on groups for persons in correctional institutions. Discusses treatment issues and research findings. Examines purposes for and timing of counseling, understanding offenders' views and objectives, focuses, therapeutic factors, and ethical issues in groups. Reviews group work with sex offenders, driving while intoxicated…

Describes sophistry, a group technique that examines the involuntary client's way of reasoning. This understanding forms the basis for subsequent group counseling sessions aimed at rehabilitation of criminals. Presents a case study of a man involved in offender rehabilitation. (Author/KW)

Reports a program in which in-service training in rational-behavioral group counseling was delivered to "front-line" Bureau of Prisons staff by institution psychologists and consultants from the local community. Training focused on conducting time-limited, structured groups. (Author)

Reports on a psychoeducational workshop, a structured procedure for making socially responsible choices. Goal of the workshop is to reduce criminal recidivism by broadening the participants' ethical views and teaching them new skills for coping more effectively with life's everyday problems. Suggests guidelines for implementing group. (Author/JDM)