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Does Participation In An Inpatient Psychiatric Adventure-Based Counseling (Abc) Program Improve Client Outcome On Intrapersonal Criminogenic Risk Factors?, Jeremy M. Reinblatt

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Rehabilitation within forensic psychiatric offenders has traditionally focused on the reduction of symptomatology. An emerging idea, however, is to additionally target their criminogenic risk factors, such as depression and self-esteem. Adventure-Based Counseling, a type of Wilderness Therapy, has been shown to be efficacious in treating certain non-forensic populations. The current study is an attempt to merge these two different lines of research and evaluate this type of counseling in a forensic psychiatric population. The current study will look at the effectiveness of the Adventure-Based Counseling program on a number of intrapersonal criminogenic risk factors in a sample of forensic psychiatric …