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Dafoe, Terra; Stermac, Lana – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2013
Cognitive-behavioral therapy and relapse prevention represent the correctional gold standard in treatment, while the principles of risk, need, and responsivity are widely recognized as essential for reducing recidivism. Addressing responsivity has become difficult as the number of inmates with mental health diagnoses continues to rise,…
Descriptors: Therapy, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Metacognition
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Perelman, Abigayl M.; Miller, Sarah L.; Clements, Carl B.; Rodriguez, Amy; Allen, Kathryn; Cavanaugh, Ron – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2012
In an era marked by pronounced overcrowding, including an increasing number of offenders serving long-term sentences, correctional systems continue to search for innovative and effective treatments. Few jurisdictions have attempted non-Western approaches such as meditative practice to reduce stress, conflict, and rule infractions. The current…
Descriptors: Evidence, Emotional Intelligence, Sentences, Self Control
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Barton, William H.; Mackin, Juliette R. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2012
In 2006, the administration of a state-run, secure juvenile correctional facility initiated an attempt to transform its institutional culture using a strength-based approach to assessment and case planning. This resulted in a rapid improvement in institutional climate. The current study revisits this setting several years later to see if those…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Sustainability, Program Effectiveness, Institutionalized Persons
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Yorke, Nada J.; Friedman, Bruce D.; Hurt, Pat – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2010
This study discusses the pretest and posttest results of a batterer's intervention program (BIP) implemented within a California state prison substance abuse program (SAP), with a recommendation for further programs to be implemented within correctional institutions. The efficacy of utilizing correctional facilities to reach offenders who…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Intervention, Institutionalized Persons, Family Violence
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Jackson, Arrick L.; Lucas, Schannae L.; Blackburn, Ashley G. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2009
The present study utilizes a pre- and post-test design to examine the effectiveness of an Impact of Crime on Victims Class (ICVC) on decreasing an offender's propensity to externalize responsibility for their behavior and its subsequent impact on an offender's level of victim- and society-blaming. The multiple analysis of covariance (MANCOVA)…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Academic Achievement, Institutionalized Persons, Females
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Spiropoulos, Georgia V.; Spruance, Lisa; Van Voorhis, Patricia; Schmitt, Michelle M. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2005
The effects of "Problem Solving" (Taymans & Parese, 1998) are compared across small diversion and prison samples for men and women. A second program, "Pathfinders" (Hansen, 1993), was compared to the Problem Solving program among incarcerated women offenders to determine whether its focus upon empowerment and relationships enhanced the effects of…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Problem Solving, Depression (Psychology), Cognitive Restructuring
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Vannoy, Steven D.; Hoyt, William T. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2004
An anger therapy intervention was developed for incarcerated adult males. The therapy was an extension of cognitive-behavioral approaches, incorporating principles and practices drawn from Buddhist psychology. Adult males from a Midwestern low-security prison were randomly assigned to either a treatment group (n= 16) or a waiting list control…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Correctional Institutions, Buddhism
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Pelissier, Bernadette; Motivans, Mark; Rounds-Bryant, Jennifer L. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2005
The present study examined whether there were program differences with respect to post-release outcomes in 20 federal in-prison substance abuse programs which used a cognitive-behavioral treatment approach. Recidivism and post-release drug use were examined for a sample of 1,343 individuals--1,065 men and 278 women. Discrete time proportional…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Individual Characteristics, Substance Abuse, Correctional Education