MRT is a counseling program that combines education, group and individual counseling, and structured exercises designed to foster moral development in treatment resistant clients. MRT addresses beliefs and reasoning. It is a systematic, step by-step group counseling treatment approach for treatment-resistant clients.
The program is designed to alter how clients think and make judgments about what is right and wrong. The MRT system approaches the problem of treating populations by targeting problems associated with low levels of moral reasoning.
MRT seeks to move clients from hedonistic (pleasure vs. pain) reasoning levels to levels where concern for social rules becomes important. MRT re-search shows that with each step completed, moral reasoning increases in adult and juvenile offenders.
MRT systematically focuses on seven basic treatment issues:
- Confrontation of beliefs, attitudes and behaviors
- Assessment of current relationships
- Reinforcement of positive behaviors and habits
- Positive identity formation
- Enhancement of self-concept
- Decrease in hedonism and development of frustration tolerance
*6 month duration meeting once per week for 1.5 hours.
