About the author -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The legacy of twentieth century idea about organisational change -- The challenge of leadership -- Helping people engage positively with imposed change -- How the methodologies described later approach organisations and change -- Using positive psychology to achieve change at the team and individual level -- Appreciative inquiry -- World cafe -- Simu-real -- Pulling it all together -- References -- Index
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Retracing relationships in criminal justice -- 3 Researching relationships in correctional practice -- 4 Introducing the dynamic model of therapeutic correctional relationships -- 5 The journeys of correctional relationships -- 6 Relationships and ruptures: safeguarding the therapeutic correctional relationship -- 7 Future directions: theory, training and practice -- Index
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Brings the fields of positive psychology and appreciative inquiry together to provide leaders and change agents with a powerful new approach to achieving organizational excellence.
This article begins to consider the factors that promote the formation of a positive working relationship (PWR) between practitioner and probationer. The results from a pilot study are used to review the importance of 'assist, advice and befriend' and 'confront, challenge and change' within current practitioner−offender relationships. Through collaborative design, five probationers completed visual narratives to explore significant PWRs with criminal justice professionals and 36 probation staff completed a questionnaire to examine their beliefs around PWRs with probationers. The results highlight the benefit of demonstrating a genuine belief in probationers' capacity to change and are discussed in light of the literature.
Whilst a positive working relationship has been recognized as a 'powerful vehicle' for offender change (NOMS, 2010), little is known in respect to how powerful a positive working relationship can be for probationers and the impact it may have upon their lives. From considering the 'experience' of a working relationship, this study evaluated 'what worked' for probationers by drawing from the successes and failures within a relational context. The study also explored the impact of these relationships upon the probationers, both at the time of the relationship and once it had ceased. Seven probationers were involved in this collaborative study, assisting in the design and analysis of the study, as 'experts' in probation relationships. The results tentatively suggested that certain characteristics (acceptance, respect, support, empathy and belief) enable a positive relational climate to exist that has a powerful impact upon the probationer, their beliefs and their behaviour. Conversely, if the probation supervisor (PS) fails to demonstrate these characteristics, a 'toxic' environment for change is more probable and could lead to greater risk of offending.
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to emphasise how vulnerability is not only "place-based" and to explore by example how vulnerability to hazards in England may comprise additional economic, social and psychological contributors to poverty. The mutuality of poverty and vulnerability is demonstrated, as are examples of susceptibility of the vulnerable to stigmatic disregard and cruelty.
Design/methodology/approach – "Place-based" vulnerability is exemplified by coastal vulnerabilities and causes of their increase. Poverty and its causes are explained, followed by examples of possible contributors, indicators and consequences in incomes, living costs and debt; housing welfare and homelessness; food, nutrition, health and mental ill-health. Susceptibility to stigmatic behaviours exacerbate personal vulnerabilities.
Findings – Dynamics of mutual inter-relationships between poverty and vulnerability are demonstrated. Behavioural responses to either condition by individuals and by society at large, to which those who are vulnerable or in poverty are susceptible, are described in the present and from history.
Research limitations/implications – Findings form a "theoretical reality" upon which some measures may follow. An additional need is identified for long-term social field research to follow adults' and childrens' experiences, and consequences of poverty in vulnerable situations.
Practical implications – Vulnerability accrues irrevocably between disasters, the results of which may be exposed by disaster impacts.
Social implications – Recognition of linkages between economic and social vulnerability and disasters is essential for subsequent action to reduce the impact of disasters upon society.
Originality/value – Though vulnerability has been explored for many years, the dynamics of its contributing processes require further explanation before their wider comprehension is achieved.
The Adherence Attitude Inventory is a 28-item Likert-type scaled rapid assessment instrument that consists of four distinct constructs (cognitive functioning, patient-provider communication, self-efficacy, and commitment to adherence) that are related to adherence to medication. Although the Adherence Attitude Inventory is not HIV specific, the authors created it in response to a call by the HIV community for instrument development. The focus of this article is on instrument development and pilot testing of psychometric properties.
