PROBLEMS IN

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Lesson 8
UNDER CONSTRUCTION

• PROBLEMS IN
• THE CORRECTIONAL-THERAPEUTIC USE
• OF ROLES
• IN INSTITUTIONAL PROGRAMS

Presented by THE NATURAL SYSTEMS INSTITUTE
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PROBLEMS IN THE CORRECTIONAL/THERAPEUTIC USE OF
ROLES IN THE INSTITUTION
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PROBLEMS IN THE
CORRECTIONAL/THERAPEUTIC USE OF ROLES IN THE
INSTITUTION

1. Transitions from Prior Deviant Roles in the Home
   Community to Socially Acceptable Roles in the
   Institution.
2. Multiple, Changing, And Conflicting Roles During
   the Stay at the Institution
3. Mistaken Inferences From Role to Person
4. Types of Roles, Role Relationships, and Their
   Dynamics
5. Roles That Transform Setting-Situational Specific
   Identities
6. Roles In Conflict With Former Setting-Situational
   Identities
7. The Potential Conflicts in the Interaction
   between Residents Personalities and Their Former
   Roles
8. The Potential Conflicts in the Interaction
   between Personalities and Their Current Assigned
   or Acquired Roles
9. The Potential Conflicts In the Interaction
   between an Assigned or Acquired Role and Other
   Prior or Current Relationships
10. Roles That Generate Relationship Conflicts
    between Role Inhabitants and Correctional Staff
    or Counselors
11. Roles That Generate Relationship Conflicts
    between Role Inhabitants and Their Cohort Groups
    or Cliques Vis-À-Vis Staff or Outsiders
12. The Dynamics of Role Interactions from the Point
    Of View of Role Structures within the Structures
    of Settings
13. Roles And Settings Combine As Two Major
    Determinants Of The Types Of Situations Elicited
    And Behaviors Exhibited
14. Some Roles Have Cross-Setting Transferability,
    Some Do Not, and Some Have Limited
    Transferability Structure In Some Settings Can
    Undermine The Authority Implicit In A Role And
    Create Emotional Distress

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Transitions from Prior Deviant Roles in the Home
Community to Socially Acceptable Roles in the
Institution.
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Multiple, Changing, And Conflicting Roles During
the Stay at the Institution.
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Mistaken Inferences From Role to Person

1. Kathryn Harris and the cocktail party
2. The youth stuck in the gangs designated role and
   the dilemma of maintaining and getting punished
   by authority or coming clean and getting punished
   by gang. Anxiety over self-betrayal. Punishing
   for maintaining role reinforces maintaining role.

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Types of Roles, Role Relationships, and Their
Dynamics.
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Roles That Transform Setting-Situational Specific
Identities.
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Roles In Conflict With Former Setting-Situational
Identities
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The Potential Conflicts in the Interaction
between Residents Personalities and Their Former
Roles.
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The Potential Conflicts in the Interaction
between Personalities and Their Current Assigned
or Acquired Roles.
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The Potential Conflicts In the Interaction
between an Assigned or Acquired Role and Other
Prior or Current Relationships.
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Roles That Generate Relationship Conflicts
between Role Inhabitants and Correctional Staff
or Counselors.
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Roles That Generate Relationship Conflicts
between Role Inhabitants and Their Cohort Groups
or Cliques Vis-À-Vis Staff or Outsiders.
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The Dynamics of Role Interactions from the Point
Of View of Role Structures within the Structures
of Settings.
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Roles And Settings Combine As Two Major
Determinants Of The Types Of Situations Elicited
And Behaviors Exhibited.
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Some Roles Have Cross-Setting Transferability,
Some Do Not, and Some Have Limited
Transferability.
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Structure In Some Settings Can Undermine The
Authority Implicit In A Role And Create
Emotional Distress.
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SUMMARY
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EXERCISES
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MOVIES