ABSTRACT
Treatment to reduce the likelihood of reoffending operates through requiring offenders to make a range of personal changes, including changing ways of thinking, communicating, behaving and socialising. Motivating offenders to make these relevant personal changes and enabling them to sustain these changes are core aspects of clinical practice. Goal perspectives have proven useful in conceptualising motivation for behaviour in general and change in therapy in particular. This approach also has application in conceptualising motivation for change in offenders. In this chapter, the focus is on goals as a motivational construct and the methods by which offenders may be encouraged to set and pursue pro—social goals.
