TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Assessing Treatment Readiness in Violent Offenders
JO  - Journal of interpersonal violence
A1  - Day, Andrew
A1  - Howells, Kevin
A1  - Casey, Sharon
A1  - Ward, Tony
A1  - Chambers, Jemma C.
A1  - Birgden, Astrid
SP  - 618
EP  - 635
VL  - 24
IS  - 4
N2  - Although violent offenders are widely considered to be difficult to engage in therapeutic change, few methods of assessing treatment readiness currently exist. In this article the validation of a brief self-report measure designed to assess treatment readiness in offenders who have been referred to violent offender treatment programs is described. The measure, which is an adaptation of a general measure of treatment readiness developed in a previous work, displayed acceptable levels of convergent and discriminant validity and was able to successfully predict treatment engagement in violent offender treatment. These results suggest that the measure has utility in the assessment of treatment readiness in violent offenders.    <p></p>    <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-2605
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260508317200
ID  - ref1
ER  -