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Sanctions and Rewards in Prison-Based Therapeutic Community Treatment

Volume 67 Number 2
Date: 
September 2003
Abstract: 

The authors examine the need to improve client motivation for participation in drug treatment programs, using prison-based therapeutic communities to describe strategies to address client motivation, including a structured approach to sanctions and rewards. They also cover the importance of compliance-gaining strategies as a motivational enhancement and the difference between correctional and therapeutic responses.