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These must be desired by inmates - the objects, activities or privileges they can access need to be meaningful if they are to provide motivation.

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Cognitive preparation.

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A balance must be reached between being too difficult to earn and too easy - either will reduce motivation.

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Prior to beginning the programme, each individual's baseline behaviour should be assessed.

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Offenders usually put onto this programme due to the nature of their crime or because of personal characteristics.

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Skill acquisition.

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Educate people in the benefits of controlling their behaviour.

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Application and practice - individuals try out the skills in role plays.

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Progressively harder to earn so that the individuals become less reliant on them.

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Based on the principles of operant conditioning.

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Learning good communication skills to deal with situations and take responsibility for behaviour.

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These secondary reinforcers have no intrinsic value in themselves.

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Individuals learn behavioural and cognitive coping strategies, such as relaxation.

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Recognising and understanding how irrational thoughts affect behaviour.

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Based on cognitive-behavioural principles.

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There must be sufficient staff to see and respond immediately to behaviours and staff must do so consistently.

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Practicing skills in new situations.

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Identifying risk situations to prepare for future experiences.

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These should be explicitly defined for both staff and inmates and it should be clear how many are earned (or taken away) for each instance.

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Should be easy to administer and difficult to counterfeit.