Forensic CBT: A Handbook for Clinical Practice is an edited collection that represents the first authoritative resource on the utilization of CBT strategies and techniques for offender clients. Features contributions from leaders of the major schools of CBT on the treatment of antisocial personality patterns as well as anger, interpersonal violence, substance abuse, and sexual aggression - Addresses modified CBT approaches for female, juvenile, and culturally diverse forensic populations - Covers emerging areas of forensic practices, including the integration of motivational interviewing and strength-based approaches - Includes an assortment of worksheets, handouts, and exercises for practitioners to use with their clients “I very much enjoyed reading this book; it contains excellent chapters, and demonstrates the advances that have been made in recent years in the understanding and treatment of offenders. There is no doubt that this book will be of immense interest and use to practitioners. The book is very informative of what is currently available for treating offenders and includes user friendly forms, worksheets, and examples of case histories, which will aid the practitioner. The book offers hope to practitioners who have to deal with challenging offenders, most of whom lack motivation to change. In short, I found reading this book fascinating and inspirational.” ― Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 2014 "This book should be considered a must read for anyone who works anywhere in the corrections system, (local, state, and/or federal). Whether you are working with pretrial incarcerated offenders in a jail, convicted offenders in a prison, probation, parole, half-way house and/or community supervision, this book will offer you numerous practical worksheets and handouts and a set of new tools that will make you more effective and successful with the people in your care and supervision." ― Gustavo R. Grodnitzky, Psychologist and Consultant, Amazon.com Forensic CBT offers hope in its tone and content and inspiration… and describes advances in recent years in understanding and treatment of offenders… this superb collection strikes the right balance between scholarship and practical application… The book is a must-have. Whether you want to learn, teach, bring yourself up to date, reinvigorate your strategies and techniques, or just add new levels of understanding, this book should be in your library. ―John Gannon, Ph.D., International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology Forensic CBT: A Handbook for Clinical Practice is a superb collection that will be of immense value to practitioners who work with this challenging group of people. Leading contributors from the CBT approaches have written excellent chapters that will be immediately helpful, striking just the right balance between scholarship and practical application. There is an awareness of the specific challenges in working with offenders--- distrust, lack of motivation, history of problems, lack of social support, stigmatization---and, importantly, how to overcome them. I highly recommend this important volume to anyone working in the forensic area. ― Professor Robert L. Leahy, Director, American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, NYC. This handbook is long overdue as it fills a glaring void in forensic and correctional treatment. With its application of CBT to an array of offenders and their conditions, it elucidates the “forgotten R” (responsivity) in the RNR model of effective correctional intervention. ― Dr Stephen Wormith, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Incisive, comprehensive, scholarly, and practical - Tafrate and Mitchell’s Forensic CBT is an impressive body of work, with contributions from leaders in the field integrating innovations in applied research and clinical practice for cognitive behavioral approaches with forensic clientele. ― Professor Mark Olver, University of Saskatchewan, Canada "Forensic CBT: A Handbook for Clinical Practice is a superb collection that will be of immense value to practitioners who work with this challenging group of people. Leading contributors from the CBT approaches have written excellent chapters that will be immediately helpful, striking just the right balance between scholarship and practical application. There is an awareness of the specific challenges in working with offenders--distrust, lack of motivation, history of problems, lack of social support, stigmatization--and, importantly, how to overcome them. I highly recommend this important volume to anyone working in the forensic area." Robert L Leahy , Director, American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, New York, NY, USA "This handbook is long overdue as it fills a glaring void in forensic and correctional treatment. With its application of CBT to an array of offenders and their conditions, it elucidates the 'forgotten R' (responsivity) in the RNR model of effective correctional intervention." Stephen Wormith , Univ