Successful treatment programs implement evidence-based practices. Explain these practices being used.
What will be an ideal response?
Evidence-based practices (EBP) means that in order to reduce recidivism, corrections must implement practices that have consistently been shown to be effective.
1. Assess Actuarial Risk/Needs—Assessing offenders’ risk and needs (focusing on dynamic and static risk factors and criminogenic needs) at the individual and aggregate levels is essential for implementing the principles of best practice.
2. Enhance Intrinsic Motivation—Research strongly suggests that “motivational interviewing” techniques, rather than persuasion tactics, effectively enhance motivation for initiating and maintaining behavior changes. Motivational interviewing is a method of prompting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve discrepant thinking; that is, the ambivalent feelings of wanting, and not wanting, to change. The task of the counselor is to facilitate and engage intrinsic motivation on the assumption that if people can resolve the ambivalence themselves they will value it more than if it is resolved by others, and they will develop a “can-do” attitude.
3. Target Interventions
a. Risk Principle—Prioritize supervision and treatment resources for higher risk
offenders.
b. Need Principle—Target interventions to criminogenic needs.
c. Responsivity Principle—Be responsive to temperament, learning style, motivation, gender, and culture when assigning to programs.
d. Dosage—Structure from 40% to 70% of high-risk offenders’ time for 3 to 9 months.
e. Treatment Principle—Integrate treatment into full sentence/sanctions requirements. Taking a proactive approach to treatment using cognitive behavioral therapy.
4. Skill Train with Directed Practice—Provide evidence-based programming that emphasizes cognitive behavior strategies and is delivered by well-trained staff.
5. Increase Positive Reinforcement—Apply four positive reinforcements for every one negative reinforcement for optimal behavior change results.
6. Engage Ongoing Support in Natural Communities—Realign and actively engage prosocial support for offenders in their communities for positive reinforcement of desired new behaviors.
7. Measure Relevant Processes/Practices—An accurate and detailed documentation of case information and staff performance, along with a formal and valid mechanism for measuring outcomes, is the foundation of EBP.
8. Provide Measurement Feedback—Providing feedback builds accountability and maintains integrity, ultimately improving outcomes
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