ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies specific intervention approaches and how they address the needs of rehabilitation among convicted offenders. Rehabilitation and correctional intervention modalities were subjected to immense scrutiny after the publication of the Martinson report. The Martinson report was a meta-analysis that reviewed approximately 230 studies that analyzed the effectiveness of correctional intervention and rehabilitation programs for inmates. According to Sung and Gideon, cognitive-behavioral therapy/treatment (CBT) is a diverse family of treatment interventions rooted in the merging of behavioral modification, cognitive therapy and social learning theory. Currently, there are six prominent CBT programs used in the criminal justice system for offenders. These include: Aggression Replacement Training (ART), Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment: Strategies for Self-Improvement and Change (SSC), Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), Reasoning and Rehabilitation (R&R and R&R2), Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT), and Thinking for a Change (T4C).
