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01-06-2010 | Original Paper

Social Responsibility Therapy for Harmful, Abusive Behavior

Author: James Yokley

Published in: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy | Issue 2/2010

Abstract

Social Responsibility Therapy (SRT) aims to increase socially responsible behavior, decrease harmful, abusive behavior and address contemporary issues in harmful behavior-specific treatment. SRT combines evidence-based interventions that use different methods and pathways to increase intervention intensity and therapeutic pressure towards positive change. The strength-based aspect of SRT develops social maturity and emotional maturity as competing factors to harmful, abusive behavior. SRT exhibits strong social validity and initial outcome data on youth in a social service setting is encouraging.

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Title: Social Responsibility Therapy for Harmful, Abusive Behavior
Author: James Yokley
Publication date: 01-06-2010
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy / Issue 2/2010
Print ISSN: 0022-0116
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10879-009-9131-7

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