“The active ingredients in a treatment for justice-involved persons with mental illness: The importance of addressing mental illness and criminal risk": Correction to Scanlon and Morgan (2020).

Reports an error in "The active ingredients in a treatment for justice-involved persons with mental illness: The importance of addressing mental illness and criminal risk" by Faith Scanlon and Robert D. Morgan (Psychological Services, Advanced Online Publication, Jan 16, 2020, np). In the article, the authors listed the wrong version of a measure in the Method section of Study 2. The article should have listed PICTS-Layperson-Short Form (PICTS-L-SF) instead of the PICTS-Short Form (PICTS-SF) as the measure used. The correct citation for the measure appears below. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2020-03338-001.) Corrections research literature is replete with treatment and intervention outcome studies but lacking empirical examinations of the process of change in justice-involved populations. The current studies expand upon previous outcome evaluations of Changing Lives and Changing Outcomes (CLCO), a treatment program for justice-involved persons with mental illness, by using process research designs to examine therapeutic mechanisms of change. Study 1 used CLCO participants’ (n = 264) pre and post module quizzes to examine differences in content retention between Mental Illness, Criminalness, and Both mental illness and criminalness domains to determine if participants differentially learn treatment content. In Study 2, 1 CLCO module was administered to 9 groups of adult men on probation in a residential treatment facility (n = 4 to 8 per...
Source: Psychological Services - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research