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Practice Guidelines for Community Supervision

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Background

  • Introduction
  • How to Use This Guide to Benefit Your Agency
  • Section I: How to Use the Appropriateness Statements to Develop Practice Guidelines
  • Appropriateness Statement Outline
  • Section II: Implementing Practice Guidelines
  • Section III: Building the Working Alliance
  • Section IV: Appropriateness Statements

Contacts

  • Contacts (20)

Compliance-Based Practices

  • Overall Compliance-Based Practice Implementation Considerations

Treatments

  • In-Patient & Out-Patient Treatment

Motivation Techniques

  • Motivational Techniques Implementation Considerations

Additional Components

  • Additional Components

Additional Resources

  • Additional Resources
  • References
  • ACE!
  • Protected: Appropriateness Statement Package
  • Background

How to Use This Guide to Benefit Your Agency

This guide shows how to implement the statements in a supervision setting while cultivating a productive working alliance with people on supervision. Below we show how the guide is organized.

Section I: How to Use the Appropriate Statements to Develop Practice Guidelines

  • A step-by-step guide to using the appropriateness statements to create a more structured, agency-specific resource for standardizing practice
  • Use this resource to translate the appropriateness statements into practice by developing Practice Guidelines
    • These should be unique to your agency and informed by your own culture and existing practices

Section II: Implementing Appropriateness Statements

  • Addresses potential challenges when implementing appropriateness statements and using them to craft Practice Guidelines
    • Implementation challenges can make it more difficult to translate appropriateness statements into ground-level practice
    • Consult this section for practical guidance to proactively address these challenges
  • Refer to this section for general guidance; for practice specific guidance, see the introduction to each type of practice (e.g., contacts, motivational techniques, etc.)

Section III: Building the Working Alliance

  • Details the importance of building a productive working alliance between officers and individuals on supervision
    • Working alliance is the positive working relationship between officers and clients
    • It has been shown to promote compliance with supervision conditions and positive supervision and quality-of-life outcomes
  • Use this resource to learn how to use different supervision practices in a way that promotes positive relationships

Section IV: Appropriateness Statements

  • Twenty statements on common supervision practices
    • Organized by type of practice (e.g., contacts, treatments, motivational techniques, etc.)
  • Consult the appropriateness statements to learn more about the supervision practices you commonly use
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