Containment Treatment

The operative feature of Containment Treatment is accountability and establishing community safety.

• Containment Treatment is most effective when the use of authority and support are in balance.
• Containment Treatment providers believe that it is inhumane to allow the offender to continue to damage themselves and others, thus containment treatment seeks to increase healthy anxiety about the capacity to reoffend.
• Containment Treatment requires the first line of interventionists understand the rationale and action process of containment facilitation.
• Containment Treatment seeks to guide the client toward behavioral change, clear cognitions, empathic response, and sufficient anxiety concerning his or her potential to relapse or reoffend.
• Containment Treatment assumes that the client will not readily seek accountability to and from others until he or she experiences discomfort from avoiding it or benefits from embracing it. This is considered the achievement of the point of order.
• Containment Treatment assumes due to denial and resistance to change the interventionist will need to be intrusive on behalf of the client.
• Containment Treatment assumes that trust between the client and the community is a very tenuous and conditional by-product of extensive work and is not a central variable in the treatment process.
• Containment Treatment assumes that the client will experience high-risk situations and opportunities to re-offend and needs intensive opportunities for planful forethought, safety planning, and accountability measures previous to exposure to community settings.
• Containment Treatment assumes that the most caring behavior an interventionist can demonstrate toward the client is to prevent him or her from reoffending or relapsing.