Beyond Violence : A Prevention Program for Criminal Justice-Involved Women, Participant Workbook.

Intro -- Beyond Violence: A Prevention Program for Criminal Justice-Involved Women -- Copyright -- Contents -- Orientation Session -- Introduction to the Program -- Overview of the Program -- Your Workbook -- Group Introductions -- Topics Covered in This Program -- Group Agreements -- Triggers and Coping Tools -- Five Senses -- Breathing and Exhaling -- Statistics on Violence in the United States -- Definition of Violence -- The Social-Ecological Model (People in the Environment) -- Creating a Container -- Discovering Your Anger Style -- Anger Survey -- Assignment -- Self-Soothing Activity: Palms Down, Palms Up -- Part A: Self -- Session 1: Thinking Our Thoughts -- The Spirals of Violence and Nonviolence -- Cognitive Distortion -- My Typical Distorted Thinking -- Feelings Inside and Outside -- The DVD of What I Want My Words To Do To You -- Understanding Keila -- Understanding Me -- Assignment -- Session 2: Feeling Our Feelings -- Identifying Feelings -- Beliefs About Feelings -- Intensity of Feelings -- Emotional Wellness -- Feelings and the Body -- When Feelings Threaten to Overwhelm You -- The Observer Self -- Assignment -- Session 3: Violence and Trauma in Our Lives -- Types of Abuse -- The Process of Trauma -- Calming Strategies -- Two Calming Activities -- Mindful Breathing -- Ten-Point Body Scan -- Assignment -- Session 4: The Effects of Trauma -- Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey -- Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Questionnaire -- The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study -- The Effects of Trauma and Substance Use on the Brain -- Personal Experiences With Substances -- Triggers and the Body -- Yoga Poses and the Mind-Body Connection -- Assignment -- Session 5: Women and Anger -- Words for Anger -- Meeting a Feeling -- The Anger Funnel -- Anger Triggers -- Anger Management Strategies -- Anger Dos and Don'ts -- Hidden Anger.

Self-Inflicted Violence -- Assignment -- Session 6: Understanding Ourselves -- DVD of What I Want My Words To Do To You -- Understanding Keila -- Understanding Me -- Understanding My Behavior -- Understanding Keila -- Understanding Me -- Becoming Whole -- Assignment -- Part B: Relationships -- Session 7: Our Families -- Self-Soothing Activity: Deep Breathing -- Risk Factors -- Family Sculpture -- The Cost of Violence -- Feelings and the Family -- The Anger Questionnaire -- The Anger Questionnaire: 1. The Past -- The Anger Questionnaire: 2. The Present &amp -- Future -- Wheel of the Nurturing Family -- Assignment -- Session 8: Communication -- Communication Styles -- Nonverbal Communication -- Communicating Emotions -- Strategies for Creating Connection Through Communication -- Responses to Stress -- Assignment -- Session 9: Power and Control -- The Power and Control Wheel -- Types of Abuse in Relationships -- The Violence Continuum -- Escalation and De-escalation -- Violence in Prison -- Using the Time -- Assignment -- Session 10: Conflict Resolution -- Fair Fighting -- Words, Words, Words -- Impulse Control -- The Equality Wheel -- Assignment -- Session 11: Creating Our Relationships -- Falling in Love -- Love and Addiction -- Contrasting Intimate Relationships and Addictive Relationships -- How to End a Relationship -- Assignment -- Part C: Community -- Session 12: Our Communities -- Self-Soothing Activity: Progressive Muscle Relaxation -- Our Communities -- Visualization -- Friendship -- Assignment -- What's in a Name? -- Session 13: The Importance of Safety -- Safety in the Community -- The Four Kinds of Safety -- Four Kinds of Safety: Childhood and Teen Years -- Four Kinds of Safety: Adult Years Before Coming into the Criminal Justice System -- Four Kinds of Safety: While in the Criminal Justice System -- Environment and Behavior.

Safe and Unsafe Environments -- Safety and the Body -- Community Maps-Past, Present, and Future -- Assignment -- Session 14: Creating Community -- DVD of What I Want My Words To Do To You -- Crossroads -- Making Good Decisions -- Assignment -- Session 15: The Power of Community -- DVD of What I Want My Words To Do To You -- Activity: Writing About a Kind Act -- Assignment -- Part D: Society -- Session 16: Society and Violence -- Self-Soothing Activity: Breathing in the Positive -- Reviewing the Risks for Violence -- The Culture Wheel -- Institutional and Cultural Supports for Domestic Violence -- Working to End Violence -- Art as an Expression of the Levels of Violence -- Assignment -- Session 17: Creating Change -- Health, Harmony, and Wholeness -- The Spirals of Transformation -- Assignment -- Session 18: Transforming Our Lives -- Visualization -- The Role of Remorse in Transformation -- The Process of Transformation -- Making Amends -- Forgiveness -- Assignment -- Session 19: Honoring Ourselves and Our Community -- The Relational Wheel -- Are You Becoming the Person You Want to Be? -- ORID -- Appreciation -- Appendix Yoga Poses -- 1. Breath of Joy -- 2. Seated Pigeon's Pose -- 3. Modified Triangle -- 4. Twisted Branches to Open Wings -- About the Author -- About the Cover -- The Lotus.

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