Psychiatric Services From Pages To Practice

Daniel M. Blonigen, Ph.D. joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss implementing moral reconation therapy (MRT) in a noncorrectional setting among justice-involved veterans receiving residential mental health treatment in the U.S. Veterans Health Administration with an aim towards reducing criminal recidivism.  Dr. Blonigen is an Associate Director at the Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, in Palo Alto, California. Blonigen interview [00:55] Veterans Justice programs [02:29] Moral reconation therapy (MRT) [03:18] Treatments for criminal recidivism? [04:24] A group based, cognitive behavioral intervention [05:13] The structure of MRT [06:22] How does MRT avoid implying there’s one right way to live? [10:10] MRT in a residential mental health setting [12:58] A hybrid trial design [15:47] Bringing together research and implementation [18:38] What did the participants think of MRT? [19:09] Listening to people who didn’t engage [20:34] Barriers to MRT implementation [23:23]