Cognitive Skills Booster

The Cognitive Skills Booster (CSB) programme aims to reinforce the learning from other General Offending Behaviour Programmes. It enables Offenders to apply the skills learned on their original programme in everyday life, especially to difficult situations they encounter which in the past may have resulted in offending.

The CSB programme relies heavily on material generated by the group. They are expected to use personal real life situations to complete their individual ‘challenge’ exercise. The programme is set up to be responsive to their needs. This means that each session has a basic structure and it is the skill and experience of the tutors which directs the session. Each session lasts from 2-2.5 hours and the programme runs for up to 12 sessions.