The CBT map below applies to criminal justice organizations just like it applies to people.

What is your organization doing differently than it was 20 years ago? You are probably doing the same thing with some different people.

Every person and every organization have a next level. A better level.

Is there a need for change? Marich and Dansiger report that relapse rates are 40-60% in early treatment and 80% the year after treatment. (“Healing Addiction with EMDR.” 2023)

Matthew Perry spent $8M and half his life in treatment. What’s really going on?

If nothing changes, nothing changes.

Treatment providers could listen to their own advice. What about the Stages of Change for treatment providers and drug courts?

Precontemplation: Highlight the importance of recognizing the need for change. Look at your limiting beliefs and practices.
Contemplation: Discuss the process of acknowledging issues and considering change.
Preparation: Outline the planning phase for implementing changes.
Action: Describe the implementation of changes. Implement empowering beliefs.
Maintenance: Emphasize the importance of sustaining ABC-DE Theory changes.
Termination: Explain the final integration of changes into the organization.

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The CBT map image is from Drug Court Treatment: The Verdict. Amazon.com
Read the Foreword before you decide to buy it.

It’s easy to sit just wishin’ and hopin’. That won’t get you to where you want to go. It sounds like a song doesn’t it. Wishin’ and Hopin.’

To meet your goals, whatever they are, you need to take massive, consistent and relentless action, as Tony Robbins has stated.

You’ll be beset by critics, both outer and inner critics. The critical voice in your head that says, “who do you think you are? You can’t do that. You’re not good enough.”

Whose voices are those? Stop. Listen. You can recognize the voices. They are your parents, neighbors, childhood friends, teachers, coaches, etc.

These are the people who started the whole thing. Beware of strangers. Stranger-danger.

That was good advice when you were a kid. Now, you need to get along in this world, work and play well with others, network, etc.

As adults or older people, you are now responsible for understanding and correcting that. If nothing changes, nothing changes.

Albert Ellis gave you instructions about how to overcome these deficits. Read about him, ABC-DE Theory, REBT and RET. You can watch and listen to him on Youtube. It will be worth the time.

As Jim Rohn says, “Don’t wait for the world to get better. Don’t wait for the soil to get better. Don’t wait for work to get better. You must get better.”

Ellis tells you how to do this. If you want help with this, contact me. Call me. Hit the call me button.