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A Comprehensive Cognitive Behavioral Program for OffendersCultivating a Responsible Adult Culture Through Mutual Help Meetings

A Comprehensive Cognitive Behavioral Program for Offenders: Cultivating a Responsible Adult... [This chapter, titled “Cultivating a Responsible Adult Culture Through Mutual Help Meetings,” represents Part III (“Motivating Offenders to Help One Another Think and Act Responsibly”). The chapter provides background, procedures, arrangements, guidelines, and techniques pertaining to RAC’s foundational vehicle for treatment: the mutual help meetings. Used in mutual helping is the RAC language (thinking errors, problem names, current life issues, etc.). Also covered in this chapter are mutual help meeting variants (life story, current life issues, self-report [interim and final], specific problem meetings), stages in the development of the mutual help group, facilitative techniques (e.g., ask, don’t tell, the sandwich technique, confronting, relabeling), typical stages in the development of the mutual help group, techniques for facilitating group development, and levels of intervention against a disruption. The chapter concludes with an account of how a RAC resident with intermittent explosive disorder was rescued from program termination in part through the caring and skilled efforts of his fellow RAC group members. Pertinent participant handouts are provided at the end of the chapter.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Comprehensive Cognitive Behavioral Program for OffendersCultivating a Responsible Adult Culture Through Mutual Help Meetings

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
ISBN
978-3-319-17535-5
Pages
59 –127
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-17536-2_3
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[This chapter, titled “Cultivating a Responsible Adult Culture Through Mutual Help Meetings,” represents Part III (“Motivating Offenders to Help One Another Think and Act Responsibly”). The chapter provides background, procedures, arrangements, guidelines, and techniques pertaining to RAC’s foundational vehicle for treatment: the mutual help meetings. Used in mutual helping is the RAC language (thinking errors, problem names, current life issues, etc.). Also covered in this chapter are mutual help meeting variants (life story, current life issues, self-report [interim and final], specific problem meetings), stages in the development of the mutual help group, facilitative techniques (e.g., ask, don’t tell, the sandwich technique, confronting, relabeling), typical stages in the development of the mutual help group, techniques for facilitating group development, and levels of intervention against a disruption. The chapter concludes with an account of how a RAC resident with intermittent explosive disorder was rescued from program termination in part through the caring and skilled efforts of his fellow RAC group members. Pertinent participant handouts are provided at the end of the chapter.]

Published: Mar 27, 2015

Keywords: Therapeutic community; Positive peer culture; Thinking errors; Self-serving cognitive distortions; 12-step programs; Stages of mutual help group development

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