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Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) is a systematic treatment strategy that seeks to decrease recidivism among juvenile and adult criminal offenders by increasing moral reasoning.

Moral Reconation Therapy is a 12 to 16 Step cognitive skills program where offender participate in a group setting anf focus on thinking errors.  "It is a systematic, cognitive-behavioral, step-by-step treatment strategy designed to enhance self-image, promote growth of a positive, productive identify, sand facilitate the development of higher states of moral reasoning.  All of these goals are ultimately demonstrated by more appropriate behavior on the part of the program participants,.  Consistent research outcomes from a host of MRT implementations show that MRT participants have significantly lower levels  of re-arrest and re-incarcerations in comparison to appropriate controls.  These results have been confirmed even in participants who have been released from the program for a full 10 years.  MRT is widely recognized as an "Evidenced-Based Practice" as well as a "Best Practice" by numerous official governmental agencies an treatment authorities."  Reconation-Prior to the common usage of the term "ego" in psychology in the 1930s, the term "conation" was employed to describe the conscious process of decision-making and purposeful behavior.  The term "moral Reconation" was chosen for this system because the underlying goal was to change conscious  decision-making to higher levels of moral reasoning.  This program typically requires participants to attend 12-16, 1.5 hour sessions to complete the program.

Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT)