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"The program is credited with reducing the number of repeat drug offenders in three states." (KVIQ-TV, CBS)
"(Kannenberg) displayed several graphs, charts and figures indicating that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure when it comes to treating criminal offenders." (Star-Tribune Newspaper, Howard Publications)
"Congratulations to provider Rand Kannenberg..." (The National Certified Counselor, NBCC)
"His work is an outstanding example of the importance of clinical and applied sociology for the sociocultural context of crime and substance abuse problems." (The Practicing Sociologist, Sociological Practice Association)
"He has recently lectured to counselors in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago." (Counseling Today, ACA)
"Rand Kannenberg is a Licensed Addiction Counselor who gets called in to the hospital when patients arrive with drug problems. He works at Lutheran Medical Center and Saint Joseph Hospital and says at least half of the patients he sees are involved with meth. It is an even higher percentage in his outpatient practice in Lakewood (Colorado)." (The Denver Business Journal)
"Kannenberg to give seminar in (Eastern Cape)...He was invited by National Institute for Crime Prevention and Reintegration of Offenders, an organization 'for a safer South Africa.'" (Wheat Ridge Transcript, Jefferson Sentinel)
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"Rand Kannenberg, a professional trainer and NAADAC approved CEU provider...has been extremely well received at previous forums..." (California Association of Drinking Driver Treatment Programs)
"Kannenberg Book Focuses on Case Management" (The National Certified Counselor, NBCC)
"Lakewood author to speak in Italy." (YourHub.com/Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post)
"'Methamphetamine is not a new drug: it's been around since 1960,' said Rand Kannenberg, an addiction counselor in Lakewood (Colorado) who speaks to groups nationwide on meth use." (The Denver Business Journal)
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Also see "What Does Money, Sociopaths and Case Management have to do with Substance Abuse?" by Misti Storie, Education and Training Coordinator, Counselor Resources, "Reader's Corner," (NAADAC News, August 2005).
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Also see "Focus on Practice: Clinical Practice: Treating Sociopaths and Substance Abusers, Rand L. Kannenberg, CCS, Criminal Justice Addiction Services" by Beverley Cuthbertson Johnson, Ph.D., C.C.S.,
Southern Desert Medical Center, Tempe, Arizona (The Practicing Sociologist, Sociological Practice Association, 2001).
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Also see "Kannenberg to give seminar in (Eastern Cape)" (Wheat Ridge Transcript, Jefferson Sentinel, July 2001).
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Also see "Resocial Group (TM) Intervention Analysis" by Glenn S. Carter (Evaluation of Social Work Interventions, April 2001).
Also see "Three Federal Court Cases Impact Addictions and Offender Counseling: Case Management is Needed in Substance Abuse and Corrections" by Rand L. Kannenberg (IAAOC News, September, 1998).
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Also see "Test of Parole is Protection of Lawful Citizens" by Rand L. Kannenberg (Rocky Mountain News, February, 1987).
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Also see "Case Management is Fact Versus Friction" by Rand L. Kannenberg (January, 1996).
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October 11, 1998
Casper Star-Tribune
"Counselors
convene for
sociotherapy
training"
By Bill Luckett
Star-Tribune staff writer
CASPER-Deviant behavior is the norm in the average work days of many of the 36 counselors and others who attended the Wyoming Corrections and Substance Abuse Training seminars in Casper last week.
During the course of their training at the Casper Holiday Inn, the counselors got to experience deviance from the other side.
They did some role-playing, during which they formed mock gangs and made speeches as they pretended to be joining therapy groups.
One person played the role of a 39-year-old married man with a 10-year old daughter who was in a sex offender program and had a problem with impulsive behavior.
"When I was 8 years old...my stepfather at home came back from the bar drunk and patted my sister on the butt," the unidentified role player said. To him, he continued, "that implied that I could have sexual contact with her."
He told the group that as he became older, drinking alcohol gave him a sense of power, but it also led to unpredictable, impulsive behavior.
"I get up in the morning, and I start to go to work, but sometimes the car doesn't head in the right direction," he said. "I make that decision."
He admitted that he needed to get a handle on his drinking. "The days just fall apart, and I'm just not thinking clearly about a lot of things-the job, my wife and kid."
After he introduced himself, the group leader asked him if he thinks his upbringing and his stepfather's behavior influenced the person he had become.
"I never noticed a connection there," he replied. "I just remember the lack of power that I felt and the inability to help my sister."
Playing the role of a person whose behavior one is trying to change gives a counselor a unique perspective into the reasons why a person commits criminal acts, according to Rand Kannenberg, executive director of Criminal Justice Addiction Services in Colorado.
Kannenberg taught the sessions in Casper as well as similar training seminars in Cheyenne last month.
He displayed several graphs, charts and figures indicating that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure when it comes to treating criminal offenders.
It costs about $2,500 to provide one year of intensive outpatient treatment for a substance abuser, but it costs between $18,000 and $40,000 to incarcerate that person for the same time, according to Kannenberg's figures.
His numbers showed that parole and community corrections cost about $2,500 to $3,000 per offender per year.
About 70 percent of criminal offenders have chronic substance abuse problems, and about 70 percent of offenders will commit further crimes if they don't undergo treatment.
Meanwhile, the rates of recurrent drug or alcohol abuse drop inversely with the amount and intensity of treatment the offenders receive.
"The reality is that about 90 percent of state and federal prisoners get out," Kannenberg said. "If we don't treat them, they will continue their drinking, their drugging, their negative thinking when they get out."
Candace Hawk, a counselor at the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins, said the sessions were an excellent experience for her, and she plans to take some of what she learned back to the prison to train other counselors, prison officers and inmates' job supervisors.
Hawk said the training sessions reinforced for her the idea that cognitive restructuring is the appropriate therapy for dealing with offenders.
She described cognitive restructuring as "helping people to learn how to be responsible thinkers and individuals so they aren't prone to want to commit crimes."
Hawk estimated it costs about $15,000 to $30,000 per year to house a person in Wyoming's prison system.
One goal of Hawk's work is "trying to fix it so they don't go back to the pen and become taxpaying citizens instead of a drain on the system," she said.
Addiction Therapist Dewey Skansberg of Sunrise Recovery Center in Casper said he thought the sessions and the instructor were very good.
Skansberg said his agency gets a lot of clients referred to it from Wyoming Probation and Parole.
"Most will repeat without any training at all," he said. "There has to be a better way of doing things, and that is what this is all about."
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