Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2022
A randomized controlled trial of moral reconation therapy to reduce risk for criminal recidivism among justice-involved adults in mental health residential treatment.
Trial report in Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02524171 (Improving Treatment Engagement and Outcomes Among Justice-involved Veterans), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Improving Treatment Engagement and Outcomes Among Justice-involved Veterans
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- For whom are treatments for criminal recidivism effective? Moderator effects from a randomized controlled trial of justice-involved veterans.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2024Trial
- Identifying suicide risk in veterans with criminal-legal system involvement: A latent profile analysis of criminogenic needs and posttraumatic stress symptoms.Psychological services · 2026Article
- Dialectical behavior therapy for justice-involved veterans: randomized clinical trial protocol comparing treatment approaches for veterans with criminal-legal involvement.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Moving toward equitable juvenile justice risk assessments for adolescents: Considering clinical, community, and statistical fairness.Psychological assessment · 2026Article
- Assessing the impact of combat trauma on the severity, expression, and course of posttraumatic stress disorder in justice-involved veterans.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2025Article
- Disentangling the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder, criminogenic risk, and criminal history among veterans.Law and human behavior · 2023Article
- Dialectical behavior therapy for justice-involved veterans: Changes in treatment targets in a small, pre-post design clinical trial.Psychological services · 2023Article
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9 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveMoral reconation therapy (MRT) is a cognitive-behavioral intervention to reduce risk for criminal recidivism. Despite being implemented widely in correctional settings, there are no randomized controlled trials of MRT, and its effectiveness for reducing recidivism among justice-involved adults in noncorrectional settings is unknown.
methodIn a pragmatic trial, 341 justice-involved patients (95.3% male; 57.8% White/non-Hispanic) admitted to one of three mental health residential treatment programs were randomly assigned to usual care (UC) or UC plus two MRT groups per week for 12 weeks. Follow-ups were conducted at 6- and 12-month postbaseline (71.3% and 74.8% retention, respectively). Primary outcomes were criminal thinking and criminal associates. Secondary outcomes were legal problem severity, days incarcerated in the past 30, rearrested/charged (per official records), substance use, and employment and family/social problems. The study design, analysis, and outcomes were preregistered (ClinicalTrials.gov; ID: NCT02524171).
resultsPatients in both conditions improved over time on most outcomes. In intent-to-treat analyses, the rate of change in outcomes over time did not differ by condition, nor did the prevalence of being rearrested and charged within 1 year of baseline (UC = 20.2%, MRT = 24.9%;
conclusionsIn this study, MRT was not more effective than UC at reducing recidivism risk for patients in mental health residential treatment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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