Justice-Involved Veterans and Moral Reconation Therapy

Not Recruiting

Trial ID: NCT02524171

Age - N/A-N/A Gender - ALL Accepting Healthy Volunteers - yes

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) is effective for reducing risk of criminal recidivism and improving other health-related outcomes (substance use, mental health, housing, and employment problems) among justice-involved Veterans entering residential mental health treatment programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Official Title

Improving Treatment Engagement and Outcomes Among Justice-involved Veterans

Stanford Investigator(s)

Daniel Michael Blonigen

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

* Veterans who

* (a) are entering a mental health residential rehabilitation treatment program (MH RRTP) at one of three study sites (Palo Alto, Little Rock, or Bedford VA), and
* (b) had been arrested and charged and/or released from incarceration in the past 5 years prior to MH RRTP admission will be eligible for participation

Exclusion Criteria:

* The only exclusion criterion is being too cognitively impaired to understand the informed consent process and other study procedures.

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Intervention(s):

behavioral: Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT)

Not Recruiting

Contact Information

Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
Jennifer S Smith, MPH
650-493-5000 Ext. 27831

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