TOFP Week 6 Discussion

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review the course document, Treatment Outcome Models document, provided in the introduction area to this week’s discussion, and think about how each outcome model is used to determine the success of treatment.
• Review the article “Understanding Clinical Anger and Violence: The Anger Avoidance Model” in this week’s Learning Resources. Reflect on using the anger avoidance model with violent offenders.
• Review the article “Mindfulness and the Treatment of Anger Problems” in this week’s Learning Resources. Focus on using mindfulness-based interventions with violent offenders.
• Review the course media “Psychological Support for Violent Prisoners” and “Gang Activity Inside Prison” from Inside Wabash. Think about the challenges related to the successful treatment of violent forensic populations.
• Review the course media “Control of Violence in Prison” from The Criminal Mind. Consider traditional and nontraditional approaches to reducing violence in forensic populations.
• Select a treatment approach for violent offenders that is of particular interest to you.
• Conduct an academic search in the Walden Library. Select at least one scholarly article from a peer-reviewed journal that discusses the treatment approach you selected—an approach that demonstrates efficacy in treating violent offender populations.
• Reflect on the treatment outcome models as they relate to the research article you selected. Think about how the treatment approach you selected might be evaluated using the treatment outcome models.
• Select one treatment outcome model that you think would be most effective for measuring the success of your selected treatment approach and consider why.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 a brief description of the research article you selected. Include the type of violent offense and the treatment approach used. Then explain which treatment outcome model you would use to measure the success of the treatment approach and why. Be specific.