title: Religious counseling in the penal context: strategies of trust and establishment of trusting relationships in a context of distrust.
abstract: The paper describes how distrust shapes the network of relationships between the different agents in the penal context, among inmates, between inmates and their family, between inmates and staff, between counselors and staff, and between inmates and counselors, and discusses how counseling strategies need to be adjusted to counter the effects of the institutional and biographical context of distrust. The paper is based on many years of participation and observation in the context of Hong Kong.
authors.affiliation: Divinity School of Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China. tobiasbran@gmail.com
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Brandner
mesh_terms: D002977:Clergy / Q000379:methods; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000379:methods*; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D011330:Prisons; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D035502:Trust