Offender Therapeutic Alliance

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The therapeutic alliance between counselor and offender is an important pact made to ensure trust and rapport is developed between counselor and offender. This bond is key in creating a heathy healing environment for the offender to work on positive change. The beginning of the therapeutic alliance is designed to create goals that the offender needs to address.

To become an effective therapeutic counselor, one must learn that everything they say must be thoughtful and worded in a way to help the offender. Proper wording or framing of questions is one of the most important practical skills a therapeutic counselor can possess. These questions must be free of bias, offender focused, and be open-ended to facilitate dialog between the counselor