國立虎尾科技大學 |

Sex Offenders' Cognitive Self-Change in Group Treatment : = A Pre-/Posttest Study.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sex Offenders' Cognitive Self-Change in Group Treatment :/
Reminder of title:	A Pre-/Posttest Study.
Author:	Peterson, Malinda Rae.
Description:	1 online resource (107 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-11A.
Subject:	Clinical psychology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798382589237

Sex Offenders' Cognitive Self-Change in Group Treatment : = A Pre-/Posttest Study.
Peterson, Malinda Rae.

Sex Offenders' Cognitive Self-Change in Group Treatment :A Pre-/Posttest Study. - 1 online resource (107 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Walden University, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

Wisconsin policy makers implement sex offender treatment programs with the purpose of decreasing reoffending while increasing safety for victims and communities. Research has suggested that the cognitive behavioral therapy group curriculum, Thinking for a Change (T4C), has been effective for offenders; however, this program's key component of cognitive self-change among sex offenders has yet to be researched. The purpose of the current study was to fill a gap in T4C research and, specifically, explore whether sex offender probationers gained the T4C component of cognitive self-change as compared to non-sex offender probationers from Wisconsin. Beck's cognitive behavioral theory was used as the study's theoretical framework. The key research question was whether there was a statistically significant between-group difference in T4C posttest scores of cognitive self-change while controlling for T4C pretest scores among 51 Wisconsin adult male sex offenders and 51 adult male non-sex offender probationers. Archival data were obtained from the Alternative to Traditional Incarceration of Citizens Correctional Services database. Using ANCOVA, the T4C posttest scores revealed there was not a statistically significant difference among and between the non-sex offenders and sex offender probationers regarding the T4C's component of cognitive self-change. Thus, the T4C program did not have a different effect on sex offenders than it did on non-sex offender probationers. This study may impact positive social change by encouraging further T4C research among sex offenders that may increase knowledge into the multidimensional factors that hinder sex offenders' cognitive self-change, thus improving the likelihood to decrease reoffending and improve safety to victims and communities.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798382589237Subjects--Topical Terms:

649607
Clinical psychology.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Thinking for a ChangeIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Sex Offenders' Cognitive Self-Change in Group Treatment : = A Pre-/Posttest Study.
LDR:03173ntm a22003857 4500 001 1152197
005 20241122094152.5
006 m o d
007 cr mn ---uuuuu
008 250605s2024 xx obm 000 0 eng d
020 $a 9798382589237
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI31297273
035 $a AAI31297273
040 $a MiAaPQ $b eng $c MiAaPQ $d NTU
100 1 $a Peterson, Malinda Rae. $3 1479100
245 1 0 $a Sex Offenders' Cognitive Self-Change in Group Treatment : $b A Pre-/Posttest Study.
264 0 $c 2024
300 $a 1 online resource (107 pages)
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
500 $a Advisor: Barnes-Young, Leslie;Johnson, Michael.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Walden University, 2024.
504 $a Includes bibliographical references
520 $a Wisconsin policy makers implement sex offender treatment programs with the purpose of decreasing reoffending while increasing safety for victims and communities. Research has suggested that the cognitive behavioral therapy group curriculum, Thinking for a Change (T4C), has been effective for offenders; however, this program's key component of cognitive self-change among sex offenders has yet to be researched. The purpose of the current study was to fill a gap in T4C research and, specifically, explore whether sex offender probationers gained the T4C component of cognitive self-change as compared to non-sex offender probationers from Wisconsin. Beck's cognitive behavioral theory was used as the study's theoretical framework. The key research question was whether there was a statistically significant between-group difference in T4C posttest scores of cognitive self-change while controlling for T4C pretest scores among 51 Wisconsin adult male sex offenders and 51 adult male non-sex offender probationers. Archival data were obtained from the Alternative to Traditional Incarceration of Citizens Correctional Services database. Using ANCOVA, the T4C posttest scores revealed there was not a statistically significant difference among and between the non-sex offenders and sex offender probationers regarding the T4C's component of cognitive self-change. Thus, the T4C program did not have a different effect on sex offenders than it did on non-sex offender probationers. This study may impact positive social change by encouraging further T4C research among sex offenders that may increase knowledge into the multidimensional factors that hinder sex offenders' cognitive self-change, thus improving the likelihood to decrease reoffending and improve safety to victims and communities.
533 $a Electronic reproduction. $b Ann Arbor, Mich. : $c ProQuest, $d 2024
538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web
650 4 $a Clinical psychology. $3 649607
650 4 $a Criminology. $3 563146
650 4 $a Cognitive psychology. $3 556029
653 $a Thinking for a Change
653 $a Wisconsin policy makers
653 $a Sex offenders
653 $a Cognitive self-change
655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local $3 554714
690 $a 0622
690 $a 0633
690 $a 0627
710 2 $a ProQuest Information and Learning Co. $3 1178819
710 2 $a Walden University. $b Psychology. $3 845558
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 85-11A.
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31297273 $z click for full text (PQDT)