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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - CBT & Mentally Ill Offenders

  • document preview of Reducing Criminal Recidivism for Justice-Involved Persons with Mental Illness: Risk/Needs/Responsivity and Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions

    Reducing Criminal Recidivism for Justice-Involved Persons with Mental Illness: Risk/Needs/Responsivity and Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions

    If you work with mentally ill offenders you find this publication very useful. “In this document, we [the authors] review the leading offender recidivism-targeted intervention paradigm: Risk/Needs/Responsivity (RNR) ... In particular, we focus on criminal thinking, one of the identified “needs,” and structured cognitive-behavioral interventions from the worlds of criminal justice and mental health that were created or adapted to specifically target the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors associated with criminal recidivism” (p. 1). Sections address: risk-evidence-based criminogenic risk assessment; needs-Cognitive-Behavioral...