The program should be supported by administration, line staff and external stakeholders, and funding must be adequate and internally generated. Technology transfer should be encouraged by ongoing staff training on relevant theoretical, assessment and treatment developments, supporting the use of responsible professional discretion in making changes to program components, and the improvement of staff clinical skills through the periodic monitoring of therapeutic sessions. To ensure effective case management, changes in offender criminogenic need factors must be monitored while the offender completes the program. Additionally, post-program client outcome must be gathered to determine whether changes are needed to program modalities. Nevertheless, we can expect even better results under conditions of optimal therapeutic integrity.
Therapeutic integrity consists of several dozen elements.
In addition, the South Carolina group is replicating their program results in several other jurisdictions. We are confident that this model will continue to generate the most robust and generalizable results, attesting to the effectiveness of offender rehabilitation. Lessons from recent research syntheses. Defining the Demand and Evaluating the Supply , A. T. Harland, Ed. We address the efficacy of this type of intervention separately.