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Therapeutic engagement and treatment progress: Developing and testing an in-treatment measure of client engagement among sex offenders in a group program
journal contribution
posted on 2018-09-04, 00:00 authored by Andrew FrostAndrew Frost, RC Grace, AP McLeanGroup-based cognitive-behavioral programs represent an ‘industry standard’ in sexual offender treatment (McGrath, McGrath, Hoke & Vojtisek, 1998; McGrath, Cumming, Burchard, Zeoli & Ellerby, 2010). Their goal is to target those factors that are both empirically related to recidivism (Beggs, 2010) and potentially amenable to change, such as personal beliefs and attitudes, social and emotional functioning, and sexual deviance (Craissati & Beech, 2003). There is considerable evidence supporting the effectiveness of such programs in reducing reoffending (see Kim, Benekos & Merlo, 2016), and this has been taken as support for these targets as having a causal role in offending.
History
Volume
31Issue
8Start Page
952End Page
971Number of Pages
20ISSN
1079-0632Publisher
Springer VerlagPublisher DOI
Peer Reviewed
- Yes
Open Access
- No
Acceptance Date
2018-06-29External Author Affiliations
University of Canterbury, New ZealandEra Eligible
- Yes