Psychological and Social Aspects of Building Rapport of Penitentiary Psychologist and Convicted Juvenile

Abstract

The urgency of a study of rapport problem between a penitentiary psychologist and a juvenile convict is due to the fact that interpersonal contact has a significant impact on the success of the professional activity of a penitentiary psychologist, and helps to build trusting relationships with an adolescent. The study involved 50 psychologists in educational colonies of Russia. A specially designed questionnaire “Problem-psychological content of interpersonal contacts of a psychologist with a minor convict” was used. The study confirmed that the ability to build rapport with a minor convict depends primarily on the developed communicative and moral qualities of a psychologist. The specialists use a wide range of methods and techniques for building rapport, however, they have fragmented notion on the stages of establishing interpersonal contact, their specificity and sequence.

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“…One such domain is the counselling arena, where more than half a century of research on interpersonal dynamics in clinical and therapeutic approaches can be applied to investigative interviewing. Rapport-building approaches have been found to facilitate the engagement of individuals who are ambivalent about cooperation in several contexts, including health care (Kornhaber et al, 2016), parenting support programmes (Moran et al, 2004), correctional treatment programmes (McMurran, 2009) and psychological support for juvenile convicts (Ushkov and Mironova, 2019). As such, establishing rapport is considered one of the key elements in most investigative interview protocols (Read et al, 2009).…”