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FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY: DEALING WITH OFFENDING BEHAVIOUR - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The offender reflects on past experience and consider the typical pattern of their anger, so that they can identify the situations that trigger it and, if the offender interprets the event irrationally, the therapist makes this clear, i.e. misinterpret signals as confrontational. By redefining a situation as non-threatening, the therapist attempts to break what may be an automatic response for the offender.
    - - Offenders are introduced to techniques and skills to help them deal with situations that anger them, as identified in stage 1. Techniques can be cognitive (positive self-talk to encourage calmness); behavioural (assertiveness training in communicating effectively); physiological (methods of relaxation such as taking deep breaths; meditation). Promotes the idea that the offender is able to control their emotions rather than be ruled by them.
    - - Offenders practise their skills in a carefully monitored environment. They role play to re-enact scenarios that may have lead to violence in the past, however the offender must see the scenario as real, limiting its effectiveness. Successful negotiation of the role play is met with positive reinforcement from the therapist.