Psychosocial Counseling Process for Suspects: A Psychosocial Clinic in the Judicial System

Abstract

Abstract

          Psycho–social clinic in the judicial system is an organization founded to set up the process of psychosocial counseling as the helping process for the provisional-released defendants, relating to drug-related cases, domestic-violence cases, and criminal cases with petty penalty, through cognitive-behavioral model and motivation interview to create self-exploration leading to have better understanding of themselves, proper performance, and finally appropriate self-development through the cognitive behavioral model. The result of this process would lead to those who were in life crises, for instance, family issues, working matters, or self-devaluation which could cause them difficulty dealing with provided situations. As a result, decent advice from
a psychologist, a social worker, or a counselor could give them trust and ways to make them feel confident to live their lives in suitable paths. However, the effective psychosocial counseling process requires counseling processes and skills under psychology principles. The psychosocial counseling process could be considered as an achievement when it was able to assist the counselor not only keeping up with the defendants. The result is that it causes them to experience relaxation, positive aspects, and eventually find solutions to their own problematic incidents. This process of psycho-social counseling successfully achieved its goals.