Cognitive Self Change
Bush, Jack / Harris, Daryl M. / Parker, Richard J. (Griffith University)
Antisocial and anti-authority attitudes that lead to criminal behavior pose special challenges for treatment. Understanding how offenders think and how they experience the world is the first step to helping them change. De-incentivizing criminal behavior, and helping replace it with self-empowered change, are the keys to upending the traditionally antagonistic relationship between criminals and those meant to help them change.
The authors, wi...