Following the previous post, I am very interested in the CAP program! It sounds very practical. Could you give me more information about it?

My pleasure.

I see. Thanks.

The CAP is a direct criminal attitudes treatment program that integrates contemporary correctional theory, research, and practices into the curriculum. It is a cognitive-behavioral program that focuses specifically on the attitudes, values, beliefs, and rationalizations conducive to criminal conduct. The CAP developed in part to address some of the shortcomings of previous criminal attitude treatment initiatives. The program consists of 15 modules and 22 two-hour sessions, which use a variety of instructional techniques such as lectures, discussions, movies, role-plays, and homework. One feature of the CAP is the inclusion of a comprehensive assessment and a program evaluation process integrated into the CAP curriculum. Pretreatment and post-treatment assessment measures, content tests, graded homework, and facilitator ratings of client performance are all part of the CAP curriculum, which allows for a relatively straightforward evaluation of client progress and program evaluation. To date, the CAP has been implemented within a private community corrections agency, but the program was not subject to systematic evaluation. More recently, the CAP was implemented in several correctional institutions of the Alaska Department of Corrections (ADOC), which created the opportunity to examine its effectiveness in that setting.