Program Details:

Resources are limited and incarceration costs are mounting.  Add to that a new administration pledging to eliminate non-performing programs.  Leadership, now more than ever, must do everything it can to adopt evidence supported and data driven practices to ensure success and get results. 

The goal of this course is to enhance the efficacy of judicial workers in preventing recidivism and relapse and promoting prosocial and responsible behavior in their judicial clients.  A cognitive-behavioral approach is the primary foundational model for criminal conduct and substance abuse treatment.  This program is designed to support the work of correctional treatment and reform of patients.  The course will take individual looks at Behavioral and Cognitive components as well as review the merger of the two.  

Participants will be in a position to integrate concepts and skills of CBT into a model that provides a map for guiding judicial clients through the process of cognitive and behavioral change with a goal of preventing relapse and recidivism.  They will learn key components of CBT and identify/describe core cognitive structures that are the focus of CBT. 

They will also be in a position to identify/describe core processes of CBT, vehicles and dynamics through which cognitive structures are expressed that define the action focus of CBT, understand pathways to relapse, the process of recidivism and how to prevent them and be in a position to help clients develop a relapse prevention plan.

Session – 1

• Approaches To Substance Abuse And Criminal Conduct Intervention: What Works?
   
• Core Intervention Strategies For Effective Offender Supervision
   
• Cognitive-Behavioral (CB) Approach To Intervention And Change
   
  • Underlying principles of CB approach
  • Pathways to reinforcement
  • Two traditional CB approaches
  • Social and Community Responsibility Therapy (SCRT)
  • Cognitive structures as targets for change
  • Cognitive-behavioral map for change
     
• Participants' assignment for practical application of what is learned

Session – 2

• Approaches To Correctional Intervention
   
  • CB assumptions underlying criminal conduct and the change process
  • Targets for change in correctional intervention
  • Criminal thinking and conduct cycle
     
• The Paradigm Shift In Correctional Intervention
   
  • The antisocial personality pattern: Basis for understanding criminal conduct
  • Social and Community Responsibility Skills Training
  • Shifting the empathy paradigm
     
• Integrating The Correctional And Therapeutic Supervision
   
  • Relationship between criminal conduct and substance abuse
  • Differences between correctional and substance abuse treatment
  • Integrating through the judicial supervisor’s "two hats"
     
• Participants' assignment for practical application of what is learned

Session – 3

• Facilitating Change Through Assessment
   
  • What assessment is and its objectives
  • The importance of self-report data
  • The convergent validation perspective
     
• Maximizing Change Through Interactive Skill Development In Judicial Supervision
   
  • Utilizing the CB Map in supervision
  • Utilization of change skills – Role playing, role reversal, doubling, actiongrams, etc.
     
• Closing Interactive Discussion