Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Professor Jeremy Jewell has written an article featured in this month’s Criminal Justice and Behavior, a national monthly magazine targeted for correctional officials. Read about Jewell’s work in the Edwardsville Intelligencer.
“An Investigation of the Effectiveness of the Relaxation Skills Violence Prevention (RSVP) Program with Juvenile Detainees,” is written by Jewell. He is the graduate program director in the Clinical Child and School Psychology Program in the SIUE School of Education’s Department of Psychology. His co-author is Scott Elliff, program coordinator for the Madison County Probation and Court Services Juvenile Detention Center.
Their topic – RSVP – is a five-session group therapy program that teaches juveniles ways to identify and cope with anger.