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Within-Treatment Change: Finding the Individual in Group Outcomes

Perspectives on Evaluating Criminal Justice and Corrections

ISBN: 978-1-78052-644-7, eISBN: 978-1-78052-645-4

Publication date: 21 May 2012

Abstract

Traditionally evaluators of offending behaviour programmes have examined group-level mean change in treatment targets without acknowledging the potential variability of change at an individual level. Clinically significant change, although used widely in the therapy literature generally, has only recently been examined within forensic therapeutic contexts. This chapter provides an overview of key concepts, and the published literature in which clinically significant change has been examined within forensic samples is reviewed. It is concluded that although this technique has the potential to validate programme theory, it is yet to be used to its full potential within a forensic context.

Citation

Bowen, E. (2012), "Within-Treatment Change: Finding the Individual in Group Outcomes", Bowen, E. and Brown, S. (Ed.) Perspectives on Evaluating Criminal Justice and Corrections (Advances in Program Evaluation, Vol. 13), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 145-171. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1474-7863(2012)0000013011

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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