Effects of the EQUIP peer intervention program on self-serving cognitive distortions and recidivism among delinquent male adolescents

Autor:	Martine D. Bink, Daniel Brugman
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Recidivism education Cognition Social relation Cognitive bias Pathology and Forensic Medicine Developmental psychology Moral development Social skills Egocentric bias Juvenile delinquency Psychology Law General Psychology
Zdroj:	Psychology, Crime & Law. 17:345-358
ISSN:	1477-2744 1068-316X
DOI:	10.1080/10683160903257934
Popis:	EQUIP is a multicomponent peer-helping program that aims to reduce recidivism among delinquent adolescents by decreasing their cognitive distortions, improving their social skills and stimulating their moral development. In an earlier study in a high-security juvenile correctional facility in the Netherlands, the EQUIP program was found to have positive effects on reducing cognitive distortions in delinquent male adolescents. In this quasi-experimental pre/post-treatment test study, the effects of the EQUIP program on recidivism and on cognitive distortions in relation to recidivism were investigated. Participants were recruited from four comparable high-security juvenile correctional facilities for offenders between the ages of 12 and 18 years. One of these facilities implemented the EQUIP program (n=49); the other three facilities provided the control group (n=28). As expected, the experimental group showed a greater reduction in cognitive distortions (egocentric bias, minimizing/mislabeling an...
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