Cognitive behavioral therapy : an effective treatment for convicted offenders ?
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date published 04/06/2007
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SummaryCognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) are considered by psychologists to be one of the most efficient ways to change people’s behaviors by making them understand how their feelings and behaviors are caused by what they think. The objective of this review is to see whether or not cognitive behavioral therapy is effective in reducing recidivism for convicted offenders, by examining the available evidence in primary research studies. Cognitive behavioral therapies for offenders include programs such as Think for a Change, Reasoning and Rehabilitation or Moral Reconation Therapy, as well as all those programs that focus on the cognitive and emotional processes that lead a certain stimuli to elicit a particular behavioral response. As those programs can all be implemented at a relatively low cost, and intend to produce long-term beneficial changes in offenders’ behaviors, it seems extremely important to examine their effectiveness.
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- Effect Size and Direction
- Conclusions: A Research Synthesis
- Implications for research and policy
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