Acting Out: Maladaptive Behavior in Confinement

by Hans Toch

Revised edition of Coping, Maladaptation in Prisons, c1989. Explains how the precipitants and contexts of acting-out behaviors can be studied, how individual patterns can be detected, and how interventions can be designed that correct maladaptive behaviors. For psychologists and those in the criminal justice system. Softcover.

446 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2002