NCJ Number
101809
Journal
Journal of Correctional Education Volume: 37 Issue: 2 Dated: (June 1986) Pages: 48-53
Date Published
1986
Length
6 pages
Annotation
This article describes correctional counseling as a form of moral education.
Abstract
After identifying lack of moral attention and appraisal as a source of moral deficiencies the author describes the emergence of a felt need for moral education through counseling. This need may be experienced as a result of problems increasingly met in one's daily field of moral action. Correctional counseling is one possible response to this need. This type of counseling demands a certain detachment during counseling sessions from the counselors' personal moral life projects and particular moral education. The relationship of correctional counseling should be structured in such a way that it fosters the manifestation of dispositions of acceptance, affective presence, strategic distance, moral-educational presence, and shared moral concern. Shared moral concern is only possible to the degree that correctees accept freely their counselor's concern. (Author abstract)