Strengths-based practices with offending cohorts workshop 1 | Yilma Woldgabreal & Andrew Day
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Room 2
| Saturday, July 25, 2020 |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
| Room 2 |
Overview
3 hour workshop
Speaker
Dr Yilma Woldgabreal
Department for Correctional Services South Australia
Strengths-based practices with offending cohorts workshop 1
9:00 AM - 12:30 PMOverview
Overview
Offender rehabilitation programs that target offence-related risk factors have been shown to be moderately effective, but also encouraging are emerging positive psychology interventions that aim to build strengths through enhancing resilience, cultivating positive emotions, feelings, cognitions, and adaptive behaviours.
In this workshop, we will bring a focus to how positive psychology can contribute to the broader correctional rehabilitation programs.
Workshop 1
The first part of the workshop provides an introduction and a theoretical framework for describing concepts such as gratitude, resilience, optimism, hope, self-efficacy, and psychological flexibility, with a special reference to their offender rehabilitation implications.
Workshop 2- After lunch
The second part of the workshop is aimed at providing practitioners with intervention strategies that could be easily chosen according to offenders’ needs and peculiarities. A specific focus on a balanced application of positive psychology interventions with risk prevention strongly characterises this section of the workshop.
Offender rehabilitation programs that target offence-related risk factors have been shown to be moderately effective, but also encouraging are emerging positive psychology interventions that aim to build strengths through enhancing resilience, cultivating positive emotions, feelings, cognitions, and adaptive behaviours.
In this workshop, we will bring a focus to how positive psychology can contribute to the broader correctional rehabilitation programs.
Workshop 1
The first part of the workshop provides an introduction and a theoretical framework for describing concepts such as gratitude, resilience, optimism, hope, self-efficacy, and psychological flexibility, with a special reference to their offender rehabilitation implications.
Workshop 2- After lunch
The second part of the workshop is aimed at providing practitioners with intervention strategies that could be easily chosen according to offenders’ needs and peculiarities. A specific focus on a balanced application of positive psychology interventions with risk prevention strongly characterises this section of the workshop.
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Yilma Woldgabreal is a Senior Clinician at the Rehabilitation Programs Branch, Department for Correctional Services in South Australia. He has more than 17 years’ experience in corrections and held various positions as a practitioner, team supervisor, manager, researcher and project worker. He received his PhD in forensic psychology in 2016 from Deakin University of Victoria in Australia. His research interest includes strengths-based offender/prisoner rehabilitation, with particular emphasis on the application of positive psychology. He has published in peer reviewed journals.
Prof Andrew Day
University Of Melbourme
Strengths-based practices with offending cohorts workshop 1
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM.....
Andrew Day is Enterprise Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences having previously worked as the Head of Research in the Indigenous Education and Research Centre at James Cook University and in the School of Psychology at Deakin University. He has research interests in areas of offender rehabilitation, violent offenders and juvenile justice. He is widely published in the field of forensic psychology and criminal justice.
