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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