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Insight, Motivation and Outcome in Drug Treatment for Offenders: A Review of the Recent Literature
Rebecca Linn-Walton* and Tina MaschiFordham University Graduate School of Social Service, New York 10023, United States
- Corresponding Author:
- Rebecca Linn-Walton
Fordham University Graduate School
of Social Service, 113 West 60th Street Room 716
New York, NY 10023, United States
Tel: 9174359857
E-mail: rlinn@fordham.edu
Received date: November 25, 2014; Accepted January 03, 2015; Published date: January 10, 2015
Citation: Linn-Walton R, Maschi T (2015) Insight, Motivation and Outcome in Drug Treatment for Offenders: A Review of the Recent Literature. J Addict Res Ther 6:210. doi:10.4172/2155-6105.1000210
Copyright: © 2015 Linn-Walton R and Maschi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Researchers in addiction and psychotherapy have long agreed that insight into problem severity and motivation for treatment are important client factors in successful treatment. For offenders these factors are linked to recidivism and relapse rates post-treatment. Authors in both fields agree that the combination of insight and motivation are key to positive treatment outcomes. However, this literature review found little effort to measure these factors in substance abuse literature with offenders. Articles identified contained the terms ‘motivation;’ ‘insight;’ and ‘drug treatment’ were paired with the term ‘offenders’ in varying combinations to identify articles meeting study criteria. Inductive analysis revealed that the majority of the articles did not measure insight and motivation, nor did they measure outcomes. Only seven of the 16 articles included measures of insight and motivation. Of these, only one study measured outcome as well. In addition, qualitative aspects of insight and motivation were not accounted for by assessments used. Recommendations for future research include measuring insight and motivation as well as treatment outcome, and tailoring treatment for this population accordingly, so as to better predict recidivism rates post-treatment.
