TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Affective Determinants of Treatment Engagement in Violent Offenders
JO  - International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
A1  - Howells, Kevin
A1  - Day, Andrew
SP  - 174
EP  - 186
VL  - 50
IS  - 2
N2  - Affective factors are likely to play a major role in determining the extent to which offenders are able to engage with, and benefit from, treatment. In this article, it is argued that the relationship between affect and treatment engagement may be understood in three ways: the access the client has to emotional states, the ability to express such states, and the willingness of the client to do this in the therapeutic session. It is suggested that affective determinants of treatment readiness can be understood with reference tomodels of emotional regulation and that attention to these affective factors in the early stages of treatment is likely to promote engagement, reduce attrition, and consequently improve treatment outcomes for violent offenders.<p />
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SN  - 0306-624X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X05281336
ID  - ref1
ER  -