Helping criminal justice clients understand where they are at makes it easier to help take them where they need to go.

Once you’ve identified the unwanted limiting beliefs or thoughts together, you can begin the Belief Eye Movement Therapy, BEMT change process to replace those unwanted beliefs with empowering, hopefully prosocial beliefs and behaviors.

Always change the beliefs or thoughts first. The behavior will follow if you’ve done it correctly.

The CBT map image is from Drug Court Treatment: The Verdict. p. 15. Amazon.com

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It’s easy to help clients to identify their belief and thinking errors using this map. You can show clients how to backtrack from the unwanted, perhaps CTC behavior to where the error occurred.

Some people will object saying. you can’t change people. I had a colleague who said, “You can’t change People. Your expectations are too high.”

You ‘can’ help people to identify and change limiting beliefs.

Once you’ve identified the unwanted limiting beliefs or thoughts together, you can begin the Belief Eye Movement Therapy, BEMT change process to replace those unwanted beliefs with empowering, hopefully prosocial beliefs and behaviors. Always change the beliefs or thoughts first. The behavior will follow if you’ve done it correctly.

The CBT map image is from Drug Court Treatment: The Verdict. p. 15. Amazon.com

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Last week we covered a real current example of the challenges facing treatment providers.

You read about how administrators discuss treatment issues, make decisions and then the staff carries out the mission statement.

Wonderful! But Matthew Perry is still dead. Why? What went wrong?

“Nothing worked long-term before,” Matthew Perry stated, in his book, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.” P.168.

Is this on Matty? Or is there some Mea culpa for treatment organizations?

“There will be no long-term behavior changes unless you change core-beliefs first,” warn Wanberg and Milkman, regarding criminal behavior and substance abuse. Great! But how do you do that?

Hazelden-Betty Ford Foundation agrees:
Event-Core Beliefs-Thoughts-Feelings-Behavior, as explained to us by Albert Ellis. Your staff needs to be proficient at teaching this to your clients.

How do you signal the brain about what you want? VAK.

VAK are our three primary senses. Visual, auditory, and kinesthetic (feeling). It’s our GPS.

Visualize what you want, Transcendence. Hear the positive, constructive self-talk. Feel the energy as you create a new neural pathway through the limbic system. Enjoy the new behavior created by the ABC-DE Theory of Albert Ellis.

Do you really want to reduce relapse, recidivism and the cost of treatment for your community? Teach belief-behavior changes to your staff and clients.

Where is the long-term change?

You must address the limiting AOD-CTC core beliefs and correct them before there will be any long-term behavior changes in your system, or for your clients.

Belief Eye Movement Therapy, BEMT, is the shortest route between two points: Limiting beliefs and empowering beliefs.

Thats’ the difference that makes the difference in treatment. Should you or your organization consider learning how you can do this for your staff and clients?

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The CBT map image is from Drug Court Treatment: The Verdict. Amazon.com