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Court Services

507 Third Street • Columbus, IN 47201
Probation Phone 812-379-1640 • Fax 812-373-2075
Juvenile Probation Fax 812-373-2075
Community Corrections Fax 812-379-1565

Cognitive Programming

FFT- Functional Family Therapy (2004) Youth ages 10-18, and their families, whose problems range from acting out to conduct disorder to alcohol/substance abuse. Often these families tend to have limited resources, histories of failure, a range of diagnoses, and conflict within the home.

SOC- Systems of Care (2004) Systems of care is not a program — it is a philosophy of how care should be delivered.  Systems of Care is an approach to services that recognizes the importance of family, school and community, and seeks to promote the full potential of every child and youth by addressing their physical, emotional, intellectual, cultural and social needs.  

Parent Project- A 10-16 week parenting class designed for parents of strong-willed or out of control kids.  The curriculum teaches concrete prevention, identification and intervention strategies for the most destructive adolescent behaviors (truancy, alcohol/drug use, gangs, runaways, and violent teens.

 

ART - Aggression Replacement Training focuses on learning how to reduce aggression and violence in both adult and adolescent populations.

 

TFAC- Thinking For A Change- curriculum uses as its core, a problem solving program embellished by both cognitive restructuring and social skills intervention

 

MRT - Moral Recognition Therapy (2008) is a cognitive behavioral system that leads to enhanced moral reasoning, better decision-making and more appropriate behavior. Focuses on substance use.

 

Matrix IOP (2008) Matrix IOP is a 16-week intensive and comprehensive evidence-based therapeutic model intended for adolescents meeting criteria for substance dependence. The adolescent Matrix Model consists of research-based techniques integrated into an approach that includes individual, family and group sessions and separate parent and adolescent substance-education groups. Referrals can be made from correctional, educational, familial systems.

 

Moving On- is a 26-session curriculum-based program developed exclusively for women offenders. The primary goal of the program is to provide women with alternatives free from criminal activity by assisting them to identify and mobilize both personal and community resources. The program is based on an educational and cognitive skills-building approach and can be delivered over 9 to 13 weeks in small groups or on an individual basis by trained correctional practitioners. 

 

Calm- Controlling Anger and Learning to Manage It- is a cognitive-behavioral group training program intended to reduce anger, violence, and emotional loss of control for adult male offenders. The 24 sessions in the CALM Program teach participants the skills necessary to reduce the frequency, intensity and duration of anger. This helps to lessen the likelihood of the occurrence of aggression and other strong negative emotions.

 


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