Offender Rehabilitation: Toward an Understanding of the Therapeutic Alliance in Successful Transition and Reintegration Efforts—The Crossroads Day Reporting Centre Experience
Author: Morry Ulrich, M.Ed. (C. Psych).; Rose Ricciardelli, Ph.D..; Ashley Brown, B.A. (Psych).
Source: Volume 21, Number 04, Summer 2012 , pp.4-11(8)
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Abstract:
This paper proposes that an enhanced theoretical and empirical understanding of general responsivity—incorporating the therapeutic alliance and therapeutic relationships—will provide insight and expand the “what works” rehabilitation literature. Recognizing the array of techniques and models used in treatment settings across populations, this study focuses on the therapeutic alliance as the common factor underlying treatment outcomes across all therapeutic techniques, and its potential to serve as an effective tool for predicting treatment outcomes across many populations and in a variety of different settings, including correctional rehabilitation.Keywords: Risk-Need-Responsivity; high-risk, high-need offenders
Affiliations:
1: St. Leonard’s Society of Toronto’s Crossroads Day Reporting Centre; 2: York University; 3: Crossroads Day Reporting Centre.