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Pre-conference workshops

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1. EQUIP: the Equipping Youth to Help One Another training program.
9:00h-17:00h

Organizers, prof dr. Daan Brugman (Utrecht University) & drs. Loek Dijkman (Forensic centre Teylingereind, the Netherlands). With contributions by: prof. dr. John C. Gibbs (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA), Bud Potter (Franklin County Community Based Correctional Facility, Columbus, USA), prof dr. F. Clark Power (Notre Dame, USA), drs. Floor vd Velden (Utrecht University), drs. Petra Helmond (Utrecht University), and drs. Herman Veerbeek (De Waag, the Netherlands).

EQUIP combines a peer-helping approach with cognitive behavior therapy and aims to reduce antisocial behavior by decreasing adolescents' self-serving cognitive distortions, improving their social skills and stimulating their moral development. The program motivates and teaches adolescents to help each other in a group context (6-8 individuals). In this all-day pre-conference workshop (a) an overview is given of EQUIP in several settings, (b) ideas and recent findings are presented on program integrity and the effectiveness of EQUIP, and (c) practices and techniques are demonstrated and exercised.

2. Applying the Model of Hierarchical Complexity to Scoring Moral Narratives and Constructing Instruments to Measure Moral Development.
10:00h-16:00h

M. L. Commons, PhD, J.G. Miller, B.A., & P.M. Miller, Ed. D. Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA; Dare Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA

This workshop teaches people to apply the Model of Hierarchical Complexity Scoring System. Those attending the workshop will learn about 1) the model, 2) the concepts underlying the model, 3) the description of the stages and their relationship to Kegan's and Kohlberg's stages, and 4) examples of scoring samples from interviews, illustrating moral development applied to using the Hierarchical Complexity Scoring System (HCSS) as a scoring aid.