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Preface and Acknowledgments This publication is intended to inform corrections and probation/parole professionals about the availability and benefits of cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) services geared toward the specific risks and needs of offender populations. The publication is also intended as a resource for mental health professionals seeking to evaluate or improve delivery of treatment services in correctional institutions, community corrections centers, and outpatient programs serving probation and parole clientele.

  • Chapter 1 discusses the increasing need for psychiatric and behavioral treatment in the nation’s prisons and jails.
  • Chapter 2 explores the history of cognitivebehavioral therapy and explains its principles.
  • Chapters 3 to 5 review the literature on cognitive-behavioral treatments for individuals who have come in contact with the criminal justice system. Six programs in general use are reviewed: Aggression Replacement Training®, Moral Reconation Therapy®, Thinking for a Change, Relapse Prevention Therapy, Reasoning and Rehabilitation, and Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment: Strategies for Self-Improvement and Change (a program developed by the authors of this publication).
  • Chapter 6 covers “real world” issues that need to be addressed when providing CBT for offenders, such as diversity considerations and how to treat clients with serious mental disorders. The chapter concludes with a discussion of two strategies: targeting the appropriate treatment for the particular offender, and the “manualized” approach (giving practitioners a precise curriculum to follow). These strategies have been shown to greatly improve offender outcomes.

The authors would like to thank Karen Storck and David Fialkoff for editorial support and Karen Storck and Steve Fante for research assistance. In addition, the authors would like to thank the National Institute of Corrections for its support. In particular, George Keiser, Chief, Community Correction/Prisons Division, and correctional program specialists Dot Faust, Rachel Mestad, and Michael Guevara were instrumental in bringing this project to fruition.

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Guy BOURGON (2009) Comment transformer des approches efficaces en pratiques quotidiennes durables : Conception, mise en oeuvre et évaluation des programmes

Résumé
L’une des principales difficultés que doivent surmonter les organismes correctionnels de la collectivité est de trouver une façon d’appliquer les connaissances acquises sur les approches efficaces à leurs pratiques quotidiennes. Le respect des principes du risque, des besoins et de la réceptivité en matière de prestation de services est menacé par diverses questions liées à la conception, à la mise en oeuvre et à l’évaluation des programmes dont il faut tenir compte dans le « monde réel » de la surveillance communautaire. L’Initiative de formation stratégique en surveillance communautaire (IFSSC), qui a été élaborée à titre de modèle de prestation de services et de programme de formation sur sa mise en oeuvre, visait à aider les agents de probation à appliquer ces principes à leurs pratiques régulières de surveillance. Dans le présent rapport, nous décrivons les difficultés et les problèmes dont il faut tenir compte quand vient le temps d’appliquer le résultat des recherches au monde réel de la surveillance communautaire dans lequel vivent les agents de probation et nous évaluons les efforts qui ont été déployés pour surmonter ces difficultés dans le cadre de l’IFSSC. Fermement enraciné dans les principes du risque, des besoins et de la réceptivité, le modèle de surveillance proposé dans l’IFSSC met l’accent sur les interventions des agents qui visent à faciliter les changements prosociaux d’attitudes et de cognitions chez les délinquants qui présentent un risque de récidive qui va de modéré à élevé. Pour assurer l’intégrité des services et le maintien des compétences des agents de probation, l’IFSSC permet non seulement à ces derniers de suivre une formation initiale de trois jours portant sur le modèle et les interventions cognitivo-comportementales de base, mais elle offre également une surveillance clinique continue. L’affectation aléatoire des cas des délinquants aux agents de probation et l’observation directe de leurs interactions avec les délinquants sont les composantes clés de l’évaluation de cette initiative. Les résultats préliminaires révèlent que l’IFSSC a eu une incidence considérable sur l’amélioration de la capacité des agents de probation à utiliser les pratiques correctionnelles de base efficaces.

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PROGRAM INFORMATION
The Correctional Management Institute of Texas (CMIT) at Sam Houston State University, in collaboration with the authors of Decision Points, provide an evidence-based correctional program constructed to address offender risk, needs, and responsivity.
Decision Points is an open-entry cognitive behavior intervention program designed for delivery with youth and adult populations in contact with the justice system. Decision Points is built on the principle of the “Strategy of Choices”. The program equips participants with alternative ways to examine their thinking and the related actions that lead them into trouble. Decision Points can be delivered as both a brief intervention and a more intensive intervention with extended program length.
Authors of Decision Points include Juliana Taymans, Ph.D., Jack Bush, Ph.D. and Steve Swisher, M.Ed, MS, nationally known for their program development of Thinking for a Change, along with Charles Robinson, who has worked in probation services at the federal and county levels.

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About  « Cognitive Self Change » (CSC)

Cognitive Self Change (CSC) is a program designed to teach offenders how to change their own thinking. It is used in a range of jurisdictions across North America, Europe and Australia. It is described in the book above, which will be available in June 2016. Cognitive Self Change was created by Dr Jack Bush in 1989.

This website aims to provide additional resources for jurisdictions interested in implementing CSC, facilitators who run the program, and the offenders who participate in the program.

Cognitive Self Change takes offenders’ ways of experiencing their circumstances at the time they offend as the starting point for change. More specifically, we start by focusing our attention, and theirs, on the internal experience that gives rise to their acts of offending: the thoughts and feelings, beliefs and attitudes, the ‘life principles’ and ‘personal rules’ that shape the meaning of their experience and their motivation to offend.

We teach offenders to be objective observers of their own internal experience. We teach them to recognise the connection between their internal experience and their offending behaviour. We teach them how to think of new ways to think that don’t lead them to offend, while still providing an experience of self-worth and self-efficacy. And we challenge them to practice using this new kind thinking in real-life situations until they get good at it.

That, in a nutshell, is Cognitive Self Change.

Comments by Andrews and Bonta (2010) from their book The Psychology of Criminal Conduct:

“Jack Bush’s distillation of cognitive restructuring into four steps also appears to be a core set of skills” (p. 413)

“Many programs are still operating on the basis of weakly formulated principles of group dynamics, often infused with a mishmash of Rogerian and existential notions of the underlying goodness of humankind … which would become evident if only the person or group could experience trust, openness and noncontingent valuing. The work of Jack Bush (1995) … has made great strides in managing this problem. Candor must be encouraged when antisocial cognitions are being explored. In their Cognitive Self Change program, absolute candor without judgement and without ‘counseling’ or ‘correction’ is the practice when a ‘thinking report’ is being prepared” (p. 388)

A basic version is available free from this website: CSC Manual 2014.pdf

A manual for participants in Cognitive Self Change is available here: Participant handbook

Developing Programming In-Roads for Categorical Deniers in Sex Offender Treatment Program

metachange“I didn’t do it, I’m innocent” are the words that end the path towards treatment for most sex offenders. Hearing these words during a program screening often means that an inmate is not eligible for treatment, which has meant that many offenders return to the community with no treatment to address their sexual criminogenic risk factors. Historically, sex offenders have been required to admit to some or all aspects of their offending behavior in order to participate in treatment. It makes intuitive sense, after all, that offenders should have to take full responsibility for their offending behavior, feel some degree of remorse, and recognize their impact on victims in order to be considered rehabilitated, right?

Enter Dr. Liam Marshall, an internationally recognized psychologist who specializes in sex offender treatment and research, and who recently provided a day long training to DOC staff on working with offenders who deny their offenses. Dr. Marshall highlighted the belief that overcoming denial before criminogenic risk factors can be addressed simply hasn’t been supported by the best, most empirically rigorous research available. He reviewed a number of meta-analyses investigating sexual recidivism and recidivism rates from his own treatment program for deniers to support the claim that treated deniers have lower recidivism rates than untreated admitters and untreated deniers.

These are controversial findings to say the least. From victims, to victim advocates, and further across other stakeholders, rehabilitation just seems more intuitively real when an inmate appears remorseful and takes full responsibility for their offending behavior, even if the data does not support this assumption. Dr. Marshall also addressed this disconnect in his training and recounted conversations he has had with victims and victim advocates. By his account, efforts towards preventing future victims have been received well, even if that means past victims do not get the full degree of closure that might be afforded to them by knowing that an offender is remorseful and transparent about his offending behavior.

While this information challenges traditional assumptions about sex offender treatment, it also supports pathways to develop programming to prevent future victims. The DOC Sex Offender Treatment Program has developed its own pilot programming, named Moving Forward, to reduce the impact of criminogenic risk factors for high risk sex offenders who deny their offending behavior. The program is 14 weeks and targets antisocial attitudes and behavior and high risk sexual attitudes and behavior, without relying on traditional assumptions about therapy prerequisites. The Moving Forward program is not a substitute for treatment- it is a last chance effort to address criminogenic risk for those offenders who fall within programming and sentence structure limitations. In the event that an inmate admits to offending behavior he will be transferred into a standard treatment group.

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The Moving Forward program is currently in the pilot stage of development. The initial group of offenders is now moving through their 8th week of programming and feedback from offenders this far has reflected positive attitudes about the program. Some offenders expressed eagerness about programming to help them achieve their goals for a prosocial lifestyle without the required conditions of the standard treatment model. The program utilizes evidence-based practices to increase participant’s ability and willingness to self-regulate in accordance with community expectations.

The development of this pilot is in line with cutting edge practices being undertaken by Washington State’s Sex Offender Treatment Program. “Since the program’s inception in 1988, we have continued to incorporate research and evidence, driving best practices and contributing to the body of knowledge in a relatively niche area of specialized treatment.” Program Director Jeff Landon is “excited by the growth and expansion of the SOTP under the Offender Change Division over the past several years. Not only are we piloting creative and effective ways to engage a population who would otherwise not typically receive treatment for their sexual behavior problems, we are also developing co-occurring treatment for sex offender with high needs in substance abuse, investing heavily in staff development through specialized trainings and comprehensive Motivational Interviewing training with a coaching component.”

“Moving Forward is a comprehensive and well organized model developed by our own Dr. Whetstine-Richel through collaboration with a highly respected researcher and practitioner” says Landon. “Moving Forward is the culmination of a vision I’ve had since I interviewed to become the program director more than two years ago.” “Overall the SOTP is well positioned for success and advancement. You’d be hard pressed to find a more talented, dedicated and hard working group of people working with some of the most difficult and traumatic content imaginable. It is because of their commitment to community safety that we are able to grow and adapt to meet the needs of those who are at highest risk to reoffend” says Landon.

http://offenderchange.org/inroads-categorical-deniers-sex-offender-treatment-program/

Video: Correctional Officers on the Front Lines in Evidence–Based Programs

Correctional officers play a critical role with offenders both inside and outside the classroom. Watch officers at Airway Heights Corrections Center explain how they have adapted to the implementation of evidence–based programming in their unit and discuss whether it has improved safety for their fellow officers.

Jean PINATEL (1952) Traité de science pénitentiaire

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Jean Pinatel

« Traitement pénitentiaire des « caractériels »:

C’est encore vers la Belgique qu’il faut se tourner. Dans un article fondamental intitulé « existe t-il un traitement du déséquilibre mental à réactions antisociales? », le Dr Vervneck constate que dans les 5 premières années de l’application de la réforme sociale, 76 seulement sur 503 déséquilibrés libérés à l’essai étaient retombés dans la délinquance. Il esquissait ensuite ce que devait être le programme de rééducation et de redressement des caractériels:

  • a) Formation de la volonté; régularité dans le travail; fermeté dans les décisions prises; obéissance; discipline;
  • b) Maîtrise des instincts, notamment de la vie sexuelle et des réactions impulsives;
  • c) Contrôle de l’imagination (crédulité; suggestibilité; mythomanie);
  • d) Education de l’émotivité: apprendre à supporter avec calme les émotions et les ennuis;
  • e) Formation au jugement: apprendre à réfléchir avant de passer à l’action;
  • f) Développement de l’affectivité et du sens moral: interêt porté à la famille; sincérité , confiance, dignité, sentiment de justice,; associer pour les enfants l’action religieuse à l’enseignement moral;
  • g) Rééducation sociale: conduite; devoirs; vertus (respect des engagements et des droits d’autrui, entraide, tolérance, respect de l’autorité)

(…) Le traitement devra être organisé avec une réadaptation progressive à la vie sociale. (pp 525)

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