Annotated Bibliography and Template

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Treating drug abuse for adults in the criminal justice system offers a unique opportunity to minimize drug abuse and decrease related criminal behavior. If drug-abusing offenders are not treated, then that can be a missed opportunity, which could otherwise be used to enhance public safety and health. There is a need to integrate treatment into the criminal justice system as this would offer treatment to people who otherwise would not obtain it, enhancing their medical outcomes and minimize their re-incarceration rates. Efforts to ensure that drug abusers access treatment in the criminal justice system are important considerations. This paper examines three articles that focus on treating drug abuse for adults in the criminal justice system.
First article
Taleff, M. (2015). Addiction counselor turnover: what’s up? Counselor, 1(1), 28-29.
Drug education is a major important service given to prisoners with the addiction or drug abuse problems. Counselors play a crucial role in providing interventions to prisoners with drug abuse problems. However, it is not a secret that that counseling field has experienced counselor turnover. Research shows that counselor turnover does not occur without consequences. Certain impacts include effects on client care and staff morale. There is a need to address counselor turnover because if this trend is not addressed, it will create negative impacts on client care. Counselors’ services are highly needed in mainly prisons and jails to assist inmates with drug abuse problems to recover and to address relapse of drug addiction. To facilitate counselors’ role to ensure that individuals with drug abuse problems are effectively assisted, there is need to provide better pay and other remunerations to counselors, develop efficient working conditions, promotion opportunities and training programs to counselors. This article is relevant to the research paper because it raises awareness of the need to fix counselor turnover because this commitment will help to ensure that there is adequate number of counselors in the profession. Therefore, sufficient number of counselors will assist in administering treatment of individuals affected by drug abuse in the criminal system.
Second article
Katsogianni, I & Kleftaras, G. (2015). Spirituality, meaning in life, and depressive symptomatology in drug addiction. The international journal of religion and spirituality in society, 5(2), 11.21.
Substance abuse individuals often realize that their lives lack any source of purpose and meaning when abusing drugs. Such individuals should put into vital measures because when they choose to stop using drugs; their lives are left with emptiness and desperation. It is important for them to start thinking of alternative sources of commitments and meaning of life which can be established by their new drug-free choices. Obtaining meaning in life and involving in spirituality can promote understanding of drug users in approaches which are matching the rehabilitation paradigms. Therapies may focus of creating interventions which aim to impact levels of individualism, choices, equality and empowerment. Spirituality fits effectively within the rehabilitation paradigm since both aims for creating an appreciation of better life and encourage people to recognize the wide margin of their spiritual/psychosocial realities. This article is relevant to the research paper because it brings to light that counselors have a crucial role to play to help depressed and drug-addicted individuals integrate with spirituality in a way which is reaffirming, supportive and part of a balanced lifestyle.
Third article
Miller, G., Scarborough, J., Clark, C., Leonard, J & Keziah, T. (2010). The need for national credentialing standards for addiction counselors. Journal of addictions and offender counseling, 30(1), 50-57.
There is a need for counselors to be prepared sufficiently in their educational training as this will e...