Cognitive Therapies (From Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation, Third Edition, P 163-185, 1997, Patricia Van Voorhis, Michael Braswell, et al, eds. - See NCJ-169329)

• NCJ Number: 169337
• Author(s): D Lester; P Van Voorhis
• Date Published: 1997
• Length: 23 pages
• Sale Source: Anderson Publishing Co
• Publication Type: Overview Text
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Cognitive therapies focus on the ways people think, and correctional agencies have discovered they can train correctional treatment staff to use cognitive therapy models effectively.

Abstract

Cognitive therapies require active and direct counseling techniques in which counselors challenge and confront irrational thoughts and irresponsible behaviors of their clients. Such therapies are not as intensive as analytical therapies, and cognitive treatment modalities have become a preferred approach to counseling and therapy over the past decade. Cognitive therapies generally fit into one of two models, cognitive restructuring and cognitive skills. Cognitive restructuring approaches include rational emotive therapy and the use of criminal personality groups, while skill-based approaches include direct decision therapy, moral education, and aggression replacement training.