Abstract
A “mutual help” meeting involving a 15-year-old named Mac is used to explicate the EQUIP program, a group-based intervention that facilitates sociomoral development for behaviorally at-risk or antisocial youth. Mac participated in not only mutual help but also “equipment” meetings; mutual help and equipment meetings derive, respectively, from Positive Peer Culture (group transforming, motivating) and cognitive-behavioral (cognitive restructuring, skills training) approaches. High-fidelity implementations of EQUIP accomplish a synergy of these interdependent approaches. Cognitive restructuring and social perspective-taking are key processes in the remediation of typical sociomoral limitations such as moral judgment delays, self-serving cognitive distortions or anger problems, and social skill deficiencies. EQUIP and related programs have facilitated movement toward responsible thought and behavior of not only of adolescents like Mac, but also at-risk children and adults. EQUIP may need supplementation with more intense social perspective-taking activities (such as victim role-play) for effective treatment of severe offenders.
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