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Thinking for a Change (T4C) is an integrated, cognitive behavioral change program for offenders that includes cognitive restructuring, social skills development, and development of problem solving skills. For trainers, NIC offers T4C offender program materials and a curriculum for training program facilitators. NIC can also assist agencies in training staff to facilitate the program.

Designed for delivery to small groups in 25 lessons, the T4C program can be expanded to meet the needs of specific participant groups. Members of prisons, jails, community corrections, probation, and parole supervision settings can all use the T4C program. Participants can include adults and juveniles or males and females. More than 400 trainers in 80-plus agencies are preparing additional staff to facilitate the program with offenders, and more than 8,000 correctional staff have been trained as T4C group facilitators.

Correctional agencies can consider Thinking for a Change as one option in a continuum of interventions to address the cognitive, social, and emotional needs of their offender populations.

T4C developers include Barry Glick, Ph.D.; Jack Bush, Ph.D.; and Juliana Taymans, Ph.D. in cooperation with the National Institute of Corrections.

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2011
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Thinking for a Change: Integrated Cognitive Behavior Change Program
By Bush, Jack; Glick, Barry; Taymans, Juliana. National Institute of Corrections (Washington, DC).
Thinking for a Change (T4C) is the innovative, evidence-based cognitive behavioral curriculum from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) that has broadly influenced the correctional field and the way correctional facilitators work with offenders and inmates. The program can be delivered to correctional clients by facilitators who have been trained to do so. Studies have shown that, when implemented with integrity, it can reduce recidivism among offenders. Lessons comprising this manual are... Read More
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Thinking for a Change and Cognitive-Behavioral Programs
By Craig, Liz. National Institute of Corrections Information Cneter (Aurora, CO).
“This brief bibliography contains research supporting Thinking for a Change as well as CBT programs for offenders generally” (p. 2). Four resources are included regarding the Thinking for a Change Offender Behavior Program along with nine items about cognitive-behavioral programs (some of these discussing T4C among others).... Read More
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