title: Assessing treatment readiness in violent offenders.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University of South Australia, Australia. Andrew.day@unisa.edu.au
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Day
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Howells
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Casey
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: Jemma C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Chambers
authors.forename: Astrid
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Birgden
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000523:psychology*; D012951:Socialization; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult