Harry Dent and Tony Ward have published an “enactive practice framework” to incorporate emotion into correctional practice.
In the correctional rehabilitation domain, the role of how emotion should best be targeted remains underdeveloped.
Theoretical issues in the explanation and intervention of offending behavior have been well-documented. Harry and Tony suggest that these issues are particularly prevalent in the way that emotion is targeted through dominant approaches to correctional explanation and practice.
These approaches typically target specific emotional states which are judged to be ‘offence-relevant’, assume that emotional states act as an impediment to planned behavior, and prescribe primarily response-focused emotion regulation strategies as intervention. They suggest that a practice framework situated in the enactive view of human functioning could be a useful alternative perspective. The enactive perspective suggests that emotions are evaluative embodied desires, which serve to motivate adaptive action at physiological, social, or cultural levels.
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