Corrections Lifeskills

Personal Responsibility (formerly named Offender Responsibility)(W 119)

This course demonstrates how our beginnings can affect our endings if we don’t take personal responsibility to change. The course includes units that cover topics such as “growth vs. decay,” “ring of fire,” “life is a mirror,” “mountains vs. swamps,” “thoughts = consequences,” and many others. It is a course on how to be successful by controlling self-defeating, negative thoughts.

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COURSE OVERVIEW

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This workbook was written to help offenders overcome denial and accept responsibility for their actions. The objective of this course is to intervene in revolving criminal thinking. It is a cognitive restructuring lifeskills course designed to challenge deeply seated self-defeating thoughts and behaviors.
Whether people choose to live in growth or decay has a powerful impact on them, their significant others, and society as a whole. Living below 500 is fraught with many dangers, strong negative emotions, and life-demeaning results. It is a life filled with captivity, where the subjects have empowered other people and self-inflicted events to control their lives. What the captives don’t understand is that the prison doors to their mind are never locked. All they have to do is push on them and leave.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES & SKILL DEVELOPMENT

  • Personal responsibility
  • Overcoming self-deception
  • Satisfying the emotional hierarchy of needs
  • Growth mindset
  • Anger avoidance

RECOMMENDED USES

  • Self-Directed—Student does most of the course work independently with a peer or mentor
  • Group—To be completed in a group setting with a facilitator
  • Hybrid—A combination of self-directed learning and group instruction

COURSE CONTENT

BEGINNINGS

Life is a gift of time and space to do much good.

SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

Doesn't know right from wrong.

GROWTH VS DECAY

Whether one lives in growth or decay is a choice.

RESPONSIBILITY

If we are not responsible for our lives, who is?

HUMAN NEEDS

Many peope spend a lifetime trying to fulfill these needs.

ANGER AVOIDANCE

Forgiveness is pardoning others without resentment.

ADDICTIONS

The drug monster has no mercy.

INNER BEING

You are who you are without thinking who you are.

RELATIONSHIPS

The most important thing in a relationship is the people.

COURSE INFORMATION

Course Format: eLearning and Printed Workbook
eLearning Length: 750 Slides
Scientific Model: Cognitive Restructuring
Author and Publisher: ACCI Lifeskills

Item Number: W 119
Workbook Pages: 64
Course Length: ~15 hours

CRIMINOGENIC NEEDS MET

  1. Antisocial cognitions
  2. Antisocial companions
  3. Antisocial personalities
  4. Family relationships
  5. Substance abuse
  6. Employment

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Self-assessments | Role playing Knowledge check | Self-reflection Scenario-based learning | Focused journaling | Discussion with coach Application and skill building

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