Reality Therapy with Offenders

Lieshing, F.M. : "The Quality of Firmness", Vol. IX, No. 2, 1965.

The belief largely derived from psychoanalysis that psychotherapy must always back the patient against those in authority used to be widely held. APTO therapists have realized the need of constructive control (a view that is gradually spreading in social work and psychotherapy with non-offenders as well), see e.g. "Tenth Anniversary APTO Conference. Control: The Key to Offender Treatment", Vol. VII, No. I, I963.

"The Treatment Philosophy of APTO", Vol. III, No. I, 1959.

"Ten Years Co-operation with the Courts", Vol. IV, No. 3, 1960. From the Massachusetts Court Clinics, Vol. XIII, No. 3, 1969.

See also Ochroch, Ruth : "The Social Reality of the Delinquent", Vol. VII, No. 2, 1963.

Barnett, Irving : "Changing the Patient's Self-Concept as a Step in Therapy", Vol. III, No. 3, 1963.

Whiskin, F.E. : "Enforced Psychotherapy", Vol. XIII, No. 3, 1969.

Schmideberg, M. : "Making the Patient Aware", Crime and Delinquency, (U.S.A.), July 1960.

Sharkey, Harold : "Four Stages in the Treatment of the Psychopathic Delinquent", Vol. V, No. 2, 1961.

Sharkey, Harold : "Reality Testing, Timing and Controls", Vol. VII, No. I, 1963.

Coleman, Benjamin I. : "Opening Avenues of Opportunity", Vol. VI, No. 3, 1962.

Chwast, Jacob : "Realistic Goal-Setting in Treating Delinquents", Vol. II, Nos. I and 2, 1958.

Schwartz, Edith : "Successful Treatment of an Offender with a 'Poor Prognosis' ", Vol. III, No. 3, 1959.

Hankoff, Leon D. : Emergency Psychiatric Treatment: A Handbook of Secondary Presentation . Thomas, Springfield, Ill., 1969.

Glasser, William : "Reality Therapy Compared to Traditional Therapy in the Treatment of Delinquent Children", Vol. VI, No. 2, 1962.

Felsenburg, Rosa : "Dependency in the Treatment of the Offender", Vol. V, No. 3, 1961.

Whiskin, Frederick E. : "Enforced Psychotherapy", Vol. XIII, No. 3, 1969.

Whiskin, Frederick E. : "The Use of the 'Soliloquy' in the Therapy of the Silent Juvenile", Vol. VI, No. 3, 1962.

Schmideberg, M. : "Techniques of Offender Therapy in Britain and U.S.A", Vol. XII, No. 3, 1968.

Department of Clinical Services, APTO , New York: "Goals of Therapy", Vol. III, No. 3, 1958 .