4.1 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?


  Involves identifying thinking errors, learning techniques to manage these thinking errors and practice using these skills.

  Involves working with a therapist in groups or individually and sharing situations you have been in and the thoughts that occurred and developing new techniques to resolve conflicts.
• Why it is not effective?


  Expensive and requires a skilled professional.

  Time consuming which may make the individual give up.

  Offender has to want to change and reflect on behaviour. They have to be actively involved and reflective of their own behaviour and motivated for it to work.
• Why is it effective?


  The programme needs to be carefully selected for it to be effective.