A Comprehensive Cognitive Behavioral Program for Offenders Hardback

A Comprehensive Cognitive Behavioral Program for OffendersResponsible Adult Culture\nAuthor(s): Granville Bud Potter, John C. Gibbs, Molly Robbins, Peter E. Langdon\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer International Publishing AG\nISBN-13: 9783319175355, 978-3319175355\nSynopsis\nThis book presents Responsible Adult Culture (RAC), a truly comprehensive program for helping offenders to think and act responsibly. It provides the tools of the program with great clarity. In addition to exploring the needs of all offenders, the book addresses the special needs of both female and dual-diagnosis offenders. Responsible thinking means habitually seeing others and situations accurately, rather than in self-serving and egocentrically distorted ways. Because self-centered thinking is typically reinforced by negative group norms, RAC starts with the cultivation of a constructive climate (mutual help groups) to motivate change. Motivate.