Recidivism rates were examined for the near-exhaustive sample of 122 sex offenders placed in a rural Vermont county under correctional supervision from 1984 through 1995. Participants were at risk for an average of 62.9 months. Of this sample, 71 nonrandomized participants enrolled in a comprehensive outpatient cognitive-behavioral and relapse-prevention-based treatment program, 32 participants received less specialized mental health treatment, and the remaining 19 participants received no treatment. Pretreatment, between-group comparisons identified the no-treatment group as having more extensive criminal histories. No other statistically significant between-group differences among factors related to reoffense risk were found. At follow up, the cognitive-behavioral treatment group demonstrated a statistically significant treatment benefit. The treatment program is described.
This study presents data on the Embedded Figures Test (EFT) performance of schizophrenics and other hospitalized patients divided in terms of chronicity, prcmorbid adjustment, diagnosis, and medication. Results indicated that chronicity was related to EFT performance, with chronic patients generally more field dependent than acute patients. Some schizophrenics, however, were relatively field dependent when entering .the hospital and did not change with extensive hospitalization. Medication interacted with premorbid adjustment and diagnosis, with the medicated poor paranoid performing in a field-independent manner while the nonmedicatcd poor paranoid was quite field dependent,
Self-disclosure is emerging as a major construct in group process research. The extent to which a person is able to share material of a personal nature appears to be related to his overall interpersonal adjustment (Jourard, 1964). Recent findings contained in the encounter group and group therapy literatures (Stoller, 1968;Wiegel & Warnath, 1968) attest to the importance of the exchange of personal information, i.e., self-disclosure, among group members. A crucial but unstated assumption made by many group therapists is that it is desirable to create conditions which facilitate self-disclosure in therapy groups. Consequently, group process research is evolving which utilizes personality variables to predict actual self-disclosing behavior in groups (Berger & Anchor, 1970).The present study explores the relationship between an established personality variable Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability (MCSD) or the motive for social approval, and self-disclosure, i.e., the extent to which one expresses personal feelings, experiences, and thoughts in a group setting. Generally, the MCSD is considered on the basis of those with High and Low scores. Highs are frequently described as more conforming, cautious, and persuasible, and their behavior is more normatively anchored, than persons who depict themselves less euphemistically (Crowne & Marlowe, 1964). In addition, an earlier study (Strickland & Crowne, 1963) reported that ''approval dependent patients (Highs) terminate psychotherapy much earlier than those less approval dependent.
Jackson's shortened form of Witkin's Embedded Figures Test was individually administered to 24 undergraduate male students and 24 male university faculty to assess their level of field dependence. One half of the faculty and student groups specialized in science, while the remaining half were non-science oriented. It was hypothesized that both students and faculty specializing in the sciences would exhibit greater field independence than the non-science groups. It was further hypothesized that this difference would be more pronounced between science and non-science faculty groups than between similar student groups. A 2 × 2 analysis of variance gave a significant main effect for field of study, with science-oriented individuals exhibiting a high degree of field independence. However, individual comparisons indicated a significant difference between science and non-science groups occurred only with the faculty. The results were discussed in terms of the relationship between cognitive style, field of study, and the possibility of selective screening during academic training.
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