MTC Applications & Benefits

MTC Applications & Benefits:
10 Steps to Reducing Offending Behaviour

Mobile Team Challenge is used in the following ways within prisons and rehabilitation centres to generate more constructive and positive behaviour:

MTC Activities assists group functioning and development, which in turn improves the quality of group discussions about offending.

1. MTC Activities provide many more opportunities for positive assessment, and often surprise individuals about their own and others capabilities and good nature. This can result in reversing the 'labeling' effect: damaging labels such as 'troublemaker' get replaced by more optimistic ones, which in turn builds self-esteem.

2. Experiences of success in activities also helps to greatly develop self-esteem. This directly affects offending behaviour in which low self-esteem is almost always a contributory factor.

3. The reviewing of positive experiences in activities helps to establish reviewing itself as a positive experience. Reviewing skills are then applied to offending issues so that significant changes in behaviour can be achieved.

4. The reviewing of negative experiences which arise during activities also provides useful insights into difficulties that are related to offending.

5. Activities can be used as part of the physical education programme, whilst also offering numerous development opportunities for enhancing thinking skills and developing more constructive behaviour.

6. Activities can be set up as skills training exercises. Improved skills in, for example, decision-making, problem-solving, planning, assertiveness, or self-control can reduce the chances of further offending.

7. Choosing and introducing activities in ways that highlight connections with offending situations before doing the activity creates fresh insights so that alternative courses of action and possible solutions can be found.

8. Doing activities with prison or police officers or other authority figures, can change attitudes all round. This can help to reduce offending and helps to avert or defuse any future confrontations.

9. MTC Activities can help to develop better relationships between staff and offenders as well as amongst the staff and establishments target population.

10. Taking part in MTC activities can be linked to easing the transition during the resettlement process.

Mobile Team Challenge Ltd
84 Richmond Wood Road, Queens Park,
Bournemouth, Dorset. BH8 9DJ, UK.
Tel: 0870 165 7314
Fax: 0870 165 7324
Email: info@mtceurope.co.uk