TREATMENT FOR OFFENDERS: COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL TREATMENT

Question 1

What is anger management?

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Answer 1

• CBT, offenders made to recognise what triggers their anger, taught techniques to regulate it

Question 2

Evaluate cognitive behavioural treatment

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Answer 2

Holbrook found, 26 prisoners fill out vengeance scale before and upon completion of treatment, sig > in post-treatment vengeance scores. But, not causal relationship between anger and offending (Loza et al.)

Damien Hanson (murderer), had 24 sessions, managed to convince parole board review panel he should be released from prison. Counter productive

Interdisciplinary approach, works on nb of different lvl: cognitive (phase 1), behavioural (phase 2) and social (phase 3) during role play. Understands requires eclectic approach to treatment, offending = complex

Question 3

What is involved in the ‘cognitive preparation’ phase (CBT)?

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Answer 3

• Offender reflects on situations that triggered their anger in past, see whether they could’ve reacted diff
• Redefine situation as non threatening
• Past flashpoint events = gradually perceived ^rationally

Question 4

What is involved in the ‘skill acquisition’ phase (CBT)?

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Answer 4

• Taught many behavioural techniques, help cope^ w anger provoking situations e.g. counting to 10
• Self talk promotes calmness, auto response if practiced regularly
• Some deal w physiology of anger = meditation

Question 5

What is involved in the ‘application and practice’ phase (CBT)?
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Answer 5

• Therapist devises situations which offender can show skills that’ve been taught
• Reconstruct events they lost control in past
• Provoking offender, test if new tech’s are internalised

Question 6

What are the stages of CBT?

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Answer 6

• Cog preparation
• Skill acquisition
• Application and practice