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Goals of Criminal Thinking Therapy,Criminal Thinking Scope is Wide and Criminal Thinking Works in other Programs.
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๏ To describe and provide examples of common criminal thinking errors in the offender pop lationpopulation. ๏ To help mental health and corrections practitioners and offenders become more aware of thinking errors and thinking distortions. ๏ To assist change agents in facilitating the criminal thinking change process.
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๏ Corrective Thinking, Domestic Violence, AODA and/or CognitiveโBehavioral focus ๏๏ Adult male or female offenders ๏ Batterers and/or drug abusers ๏ 7th grade reading level is the intended target audience
๏ Utilizes the theory and principles developed by Stanton Samenow and Yochelson ๏๏ Investigation of Criminal Behavior at St ElizabethsInvestigation of Criminal Behavior at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. ๏ The longest clinical research of offenders in North America ๏ Three volume publication The Criminal Personality (Lanham, Md.: Roman and Littlefield) that he coโ authored with Dr. Yochelson.
๏ Not Receptive
๏ Not Self Critical
๏ No Disclosure
๏ Good at pointing out, giving feedback on faults of others ๏ Lies by omission
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๏ Views self as victim (the criminal will even blame social conditions โI live in the ghetto, what do you o e pectโ)expectโ)
๏ Blames others (โthe cops just keep messing with meโ)
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๏ Focuses only on his/her positive attributes
๏ Fails to acknowledge his/her destructive behavior
๏ Builds self up at others expense
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Citation: www.criminalthinking.net
๏ Responsible living viewed as unexciting and unsatisfying
๏๏ No sense of obligation
๏ Will respond only if he/she nets an immediate payoff
๏ Does not use past as a learning tool
๏ Expects others to act immediately on his/her/demands / /
๏ Decisions on assumptions, not facts
๏ Perceives all things, people, objects to possess ๏ No concept of ownership, rights of others ๏ Sex for power and control โ not intimacy ๏ Use drugs/money as a means of controlling people
10.Attempting to confuse others 11.Minimizes the situation 12.Agrees without meaning it 13.Silence 14.Selective attention 15.Make a big scene about minor issues 16.Putting off doing something by saying I forgot 17.Claiming that they have changed because they did something right, once!
๏ A history of early involvement in deviant or antisocial and criminal conduct; ๏๏ Having grown up in a disruptive abusive andHaving grown up in a disruptive, abusive and neglectful family where there was lack of parental attention and supervision; ๏ Failure in school, work and leisure time; ๏ AOD disorders at an early age
๏ Criminogenic need: Dynamic risk factors or attributes of offenders that, when changed, infl ence the probabilitinfluence the probabilit y of recidi ismof recidivism
๏ Selfโoriented communication patterns ๏ Need for family closeness and communication ๏๏ Need for primary social unit structures such as familyNeed for primary social unit structures such as family ๏ Involvement in antisocial and deviant behaviors ๏ Need to manipulate and to control others ๏ Receive rewards through criminal conduct ๏ Participate in environments of highโrisk for criminal conduct
๏ Blame others for own action and behaviors ๏ Impaired moral reasoning; hold selfโserving/antisocial moral codes ๏ Overall impaired social and interpersonal skills ๏ Overt acting out of feelings of anger and resentment ๏ Thinking in a โblack and whiteโ concrete manner ๏ Need to use substances to support criminal and antisocial conduct
Injury worksheet Self & Victim Families Neighbors Community Quality of Life โRipple Effectโ
๏ Entitlement ๏ Justification ๏ Personal Irresponsibility ๏ Power Orientation ๏ Cold Heartedness ๏ Criminal Rationalization Knight, K., Simpson, D. D., Garner, B. R., Flynn, P. M., & Morey, J. T. (in press). The TCU Criminal Thinking Scales