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© British Association of Social Workers

A Cognitive Approach to the Treatment of Offenders

BEN-ZION COHEN

Ben-Zion Cohen is Lecturer and Head of the BSW Program at the School of Social Work. University of Haifa, Israel. He holds the B.Sc. degree from Columbia University (1959), the M.S.W. from the University of California at Los Angeles (1961), and the Ph.D from Bryn Mawr College (1981). He practiced for nearly twenty years at the Adult Probation Service in Haifa.

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This is an initial attempt to apply the principles of cognitive therapy to the treatment of adult offenders. The paper includes a brief presentation of the basic theory of cognitive therapy and a discussion of its relevance to criminal behaviour. It then describes a group of treatment techniques, with examples of their application. The interventions fall into three general categories: cognitive restructing and impulse control, problem-solving and social-skills training, and cognitive stimulation. Some of the techniques are borrowed, with adaptations. from the literature of cognitive therapy and some are presented here for the first time.


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