Community Interventions
Cognitive Self-Change� Bush&Billodeau -- from Jay Kimble
Training ~ Consulting ~ Seminars


Thinking controls behavior. Change thinking to change behavior.

Offenders could have a more productive future with Cognitive Self-Change.

Cognitive Self-Change for corrections, criminal justice, juvenile justice and education.


Offenders often have their own ideas about how people should behave. The rules that apply to others only selectively apply to them. Cognitive Self-Change assists offenders to look at the distortions and inconsistencies in their decision making processes.


When the distorted thinking is seen through objective self-assessment the decisions and resulting behavior becomes much less attractive.

Community Interventions

654 Eagle Point

Lake Odessa , MI 48849

616-527-2510 xt 2501

Community Interventions

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There are many useful applications for cognitive interventions.

Jay is currently facilitating groups of prisoners at the Eaton County Jail in Charlotte, Michigan. Community Interventions contracts Cognitive Self-Change groups for both the Drug Court and Motivation Dorm Program.


Community Interventions has trained hundreds of Cognitive Self-Change facilitators from across the United States. Director Richard Adams from Human Resource Management Consulting Inc. from Wilkes Barre, PA. once told Abe and Jay, "I have paid alot more money for people who weren't as interesting or engaging for my employees as you have been".

Our thanks to employees of Lucas County Correctional Treatment Facility, Toledo, OH for being such gracious hosts. Hello and thanks to all of our friends and associates across the US.

Our Perspective
    At Community Interventions, we view the decision making process as the determinant of behavior. People process circumstantial information through a set of central beliefs. The situation is then internalized through a set of cognitive routines that have been learned and reinforced over a period of time.

    This thinking is often distorted through, what many people call, thinking errors.( Originally published in The Criminal Personality authors Yochelson and Samenow, Aronson Press, 1976.) This set of cognitive routines are habitual and are validated through distortion in thinking and perceptions.

    If offenders are to effect lasting and meaningful change they must undertake to objectively assess thier own thinking habits. They must also, commit to a great deal of work involving deliberately changing the way they process information.

    Their thoughts have meaning that lead to a set of decisions that are harmful to themselves and to others. They must recognize this and work toward a different set of thnking patterns and life goals.
Cognitive Links
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Stanton E. Samenow Ph.D.
Possibly the most important cognitive behavioral expert alive when dealing with criminal thinking.

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Hazelden
Publishes and Trains: cognitive based approaches

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