Group Counseling Efficiency based on Choice Theory on Prisoners’ Responsibility Increase

Leading people to behave responsibly is one the aims of counselors and school psychologists. It seems that the people make an offence have disorders due to lack of compatible skills in facing with stressful events and showing accountable behaviors The aim of this research is to apply group counseling based on choice theory on enhancing the accountability of prisoners below 18 years old. For this aim, during a quasi experimental research considering the pre and past test measurements with control group, 30 prisoners have been selected from centre of correction and rehabilitation by stochastic sampling and they have been divided in two groups of experimental and waiting group. The experimental group has been treated according to choice theory during 10 sessions. The comparison of test marks between pre and past test using covariance analysis showed that group counseling based on choice theory had positive effect on enhancing accountability of the prisoners below 18 and made it much better. It seems that choice theory emphasizing of this matter that we are responsible on what we are doing can have effective role on community- friendly practices by enhancing accountability of the prisoners.