Inside and Out

Women, Prison, and Therapy

Elaine J. Leeder

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781136864360
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

A critical perspective on the treatment of incarcerated women—and their children

Inside and Out: Women, Prison, and Therapy challenges conventional thinking about the therapeutic issues facing female prisoners and their children. Therapists, counselors, scholars, and activists examine the injustices of the criminal justice system and the roles feminist therapists can play in deconstructing and demystifying the lives of women prisoners by becoming more involved in clinical work.

Inside and Out: Women, Prison, and Therapy examines this growing problem from a feminist perspective, debunking stereotypes about women perpetrators with a thorough examination of gender-responsive treatment of women in a variety of settings. This unique book includes a macro analysis of gender and criminality; an assessment of violence and the abuse of women; parenting and the impact of incarceration on children; treatment approaches developed specifically for women prisoners; and an outline of what women need when leaving prison life. The book also examines crucial issues facing women prisoners, including sexual abuse and assault, substance abuse, mental and physical health concerns, human rights, violence, discrimination, and the unique problems of women prisoners of color.

Topics addressed in Inside and Out: Women, Prison, and Therapy include:

• designing and delivering gender-responsive programs for women
  
• developing therapeutic measures to correct and normalize marginalized women
  
• mistreatment of women prisoners in the United States
  
• domestic violence and its connection to criminalization
  
• counseling sexually abused women
  
• motherhood, crime, and prison
  
• the effects of incarceration on children and families
  
• women, addiction, and incarceration
  
• using drama therapy with incarcerated women
  
• feminist support groups
  
• transitioning after release from prison
  
• and much more

Inside and Out: Women, Prison, and Therapy is a vital professional resource for therapists and counselors who work with female prisoners and their families.

Index

Abuse. See also Childhood abuse; Domestic violence; Sexual abuse

defined, 80

domestic violence survivors, 75-96

of families by justice system, 170

strategic responses to, 97-115

Addiction. See Substance abuse/addiction

Addiction theory, 16,18-19

Advocacy, 129

AIDS/HIV, 63,295

Alleyne, Vanessa, 6, 181-194

Alliant International University, 215-237

Alternative sentencing programs, 233-234

Amnesty International, 60, 62, 64

Andrews & Bonta risk prediction scale, 40-42

Background and principles, 1-8

Beck, Julie A., 7, 239-259

Beyond Trauma: A Healing Journey for Women, 28

Bias

gender in War on Drugs, 137

in risk prediction models, 41

Bibliotherapy, 172-173

Bliss, Melanie J., 5-6, 97-115

Bloom, Barbara E., 4, 9-33

Brezina, Kerry, 6, 117-133

Bronfenbrenner’s personal ecology theory, 100

California

accreditation of prisons, 65

health care in prison system, 62

prison doctors, 65

(University of) California-Los Angeles, 75-96

(University of) California-Santa Cruz, 239-259

Canada, 6

criminalization study, 35-56

Center for Gender and Justice, 9-33

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, 23

Child Abuse Questionnaire, 103

Child custody, 300-301

Childhood abuse

coping mechanisms in, 124-125

domestic violence subsequent to, 105

former in imprisoned women, 119-122

literature review of former, 119-122

psychologizing and, 120

trauma theory and, 17

Childhood environment, strategic abuse responses and, 109-110

Children. See also Family; Motherhood; Mothers

barriers to contact, 170

bibliotherapy with, 172-173

conclusion, 176

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Inside and Out: Women, Prison and Therapy: A Feminist Dialogue on Challenging Correctional Discourse
• Gender Responsive Treatment and Services in Correctional Settings
• “We’re Not All That Criminal”: Getting Beyond the Pathologizing and Individualizing of Women’s Crime
• Human Rights and U.S. Female Prisoners
• Un-Domesticating Violence: Criminalizing Survivors and U.S. Mass Incarceration
• An Ecological Approach to Understanding Incarcerated Women’s Responses to Abuse
• Negotiating Contradictions: Sexual Abuse Counseling with Imprisoned Women
• Criminalized Mothers: The Value and Devaluation of Parenthood from Behind Bars
• Children and Families: Mothers Who Are Incarcerated
• Locked Up Means Locked Out: Women, Addiction and Incarceration
• Voices of Pride: Drama Therapy with Incarcerated Women
• Countering Correctional Discourse: Development of a Feminist Support Group for Women Prisoners in Guam
• Recovering Selves: Women and the Governance of Conduct in a Residential Drug Treatment Program
• Moving from Needs to Self-Efficacy: A Holistic System for Women in Transition from Prison
• Locked Up, Then Locked Out: Women Coming Out of Prison
• Index