Explain cognitive behavioral therapy and the effectiveness of the program. What are your views on this treatment? Do you agree with the claim that it addresses such areas as mood disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? What type of youth-adjudicated delinquent would be the ideal candidate for this type of treatment? Provide a rationale for your views

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a treatment that focuses on patterns of thinking and the beliefs, attitudes, and values that underlie thinking.
• Cognitive behavioral therapy can help restructure distorted thinking and perception, which in turn changes a person's behavior for the better.
• CBT is one of the few approaches to behavioral change that has been broadly validated with research.
• Unlike other traditional and popular therapies, CBT has been the subject of more than 400 clinical trials involving a broad range of conditions and populations.
• CBT has been shown to be reliably effective with a wide variety of personal problems and behaviors linked to delinquency:
o substance abuse
o antisocial, aggressive behavior
o mood disorders
• It has successfully addressed many issues experienced by children, including:
o disruptive or noncompliant behavior
o oppositional defiant disorder
o attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
• Mark Lipsey evaluated the results of more than 500 treatment programs and found that therapeutic approaches that had the greatest impact on reducing problem behavior are based on multiple services such as:
o counseling
o skill building
• Lipsey showed that programs based on cognitive behavioral therapy are effective with juvenile offenders in various settings including
o residential
o probation
o aftercare
• CBT significantly reduced recidivism even among high-risk offenders
• Student responses will vary