Competency Modeling And Evaluation On Professional Psychological Services Workers In Community-based Correction

Community Corrections (Community-based Correction, CC) is a hot issue in the field of criminal justice in the harmonic society. Community-based Mental Correction (CMC) is the entire name of the activities that correct the CC inmates'criminal mental and behavioral habits to adapt to the society, by various means of psychological intervention. It has been recognized that Mental Correction dose work on the treatment of offenders, both at home and abroad. However, research on the workers of psychological correction is rare. On the basis of the researches related to the field of I/O Psychology and Counseling Psychology, this study will try to build an future-oriented competency model (CM) of CMC and a CM-based situational simulation test, case analysis as an evaluation tool, which will meet the professional development needs of the CMC workers, as well as their human resource management, as effective and scientific tools for management.The results of this study are as follows: (1) Construction of a community mental correction workers competency model both in professional and the general aspects. (2) Its found which personnel statistical variables that impact on the importance of the competencies of CMC workers. (3) It proved that the Competency Requirement Questionnaire is a powerful tool to research the future-oriented CM. (4) the development of the reliability and validity of a good situational analysis and evaluation tool simulation cases. (5) It found that basing the CM as a concept structure of competence evaluation can effectively improve the construct validity of the situational simulation tool. (6) It found that the use of incomplete 360-degree assessment as a criterion may reduce the criterion validity. (7) Analyzed the current level of the relevant CMC workers'professional competences.The above results create new beginning of research on professional psychological services workers'competency and its evaluation both in the field of criminal psychology and counseling psychology, prove again the scientific process on the CM construction and evaluation tools development in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and has an important value for the enhancement of Chinese CMC professional development and the quality of management...