Raymond Tafrate

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Hofstra University, 1995. Clinical and School Psychology.

M.A. Hofstra University, 1991. General Psychology.

B.A. University of Vermont, 1987. Psychology.

 

TEACHING

Research Methods in Criminal Justice (CRM 322)

Applied Research in Criminal Justice (CRM 378)

Controlling Anger and Aggression (CRM 475/ CJ 555)

Extreme Offending (CRM 466)

Offender Profiles (CJ 530)

Forensic Counseling (CJ 535)

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/ CERTIFICATES 

State of Connecticut Department of Public Health License in Psychology

New York State Education Department License in Psychology

Advisory Board, Forensic Issues and Externalizing Behaviors Special Interest Group for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

Member, Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers

Fellow and Supervisor, the Albert Ellis Institute

Member, Canadian Psychological Association Criminal Justice Section

Editorial Board Member, Criminal Justice and Behavior

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Mitchell, D., Tafrate, R. C., Cox, S. M., Hogan, T., Bourgon, G., & Rugge, T. (in press). Changes in probation officer behavior and caseload recidivism following training in cognitive-behavioral techniques. Criminal Justice and Behavior. 

Tafrate, R. C., Mitchell, D., Cox, S. M., & Hogan, T. (2023). Measuring a motivational interviewing practice orientation in criminal justice practitioners: Initial validation of the response style screening questionnaire. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1-16. 

Tafrate, R. C., Mitchell, D., Hogan, T., Vincent G. M., Jones, N. J., & Bourgon, G. (2023). Ten things risk/needs assessment is not. Federal Probation, 87(1), 8-18.

Tafrate, R. C., & Mitchell, D. (2022). Criminogenic thinking among justice-involved persons: Practice guidelines for probation staff. Federal Probation, 86, 4-10.

DiBlasi, T., Tafrate, R. C., & Kassinove, H. (2022). Core mechanisms of change in motivational interviewing: An attempt to separate relational from technical element effects. Psychological Topics, 31(3), 743-761.

Tafrate, R. C., Mitchell, D., Mackey, B. J., Appleton, CJ., Walter, S. T., Lee, J. S. & Taxman, F. S. (2021). Surfing the three waves of CBT in community supervision. Federal Probation, 85(3), 21–26.

Jones, N. J., Mitchell, D., & Tafrate. R. C. (2021). The gendered nature of criminogenic thinking patterns among justice-involved clients: A pilot study. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 48, 442–458.

Kassinove, H., & Tafrate, R.C., (2019). The practitioner’s guide to anger management: Customizable interventions, treatments, and tools for clients with problem anger. Impact/New Harbinger Publications.

Tafrate, R. C., & Kassinove, H. (2019). Anger management for everyone (2nd ed.): Ten proven strategies to help you control anger and live a happier life. Impact/New Harbinger Publications. 

Tafrate, R. C., Hogan, T., & Mitchell, D. (2019). Integrating motivational interviewing with risk- need-responsivity based practice in community corrections: Collaboratively focusing on what matters most.  In D. Polaschek, A. Day, and C. Hollin (Eds.), The Wiley international handbook of correctional psychology (pp. 603-622). Wiley.

Tafrate, R. C., Mitchell, D., & Simourd, D. J. (2018). CBT with justice-involved clients: Interventions for antisocial and self-destructive behaviors. Guilford Press.

Tafrate, R. C., & White, B. A. (Eds.). (2016). Special issue forensics. the Behavior Therapist, 39(5).

Mitchell, D., Wormith, J. S., & Tafrate, R. C. (2016). Implications of risk-need-responsivity principles for forensic CBT. the Behavior Therapist, 39, 147-153.

Mitchell, D., Tafrate, R. C., & Freeman, A. (2015). Antisocial personality disorder. In A. Beck, D. Davis, & A. Freeman (Eds.), Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders 3rd edition. Guilford Press.

Tafrate, R. C., & Mitchell, D.  (Eds.). (2014). Forensic CBT: A handbook for clinical practice. Wiley.

Tafrate, R. C., & Luther, J. D. (2014). Integrating motivational interviewing with forensic CBT: Promoting treatment engagement and behavior change with justice-involved clients. In R. Tafrate and D. Mitchell (Eds.), Forensic CBT: A handbook for clinical practice. Wiley.

Kassinove, H., & Tafrate, R. C. (2014). Anger Management in Counseling and Psychotherapy – DVD. Mill Valley, CA: Psychotherapy.net.

Mitchell, D., & Tafrate, R. C. (2012). Conceptualization and measurement of criminal thinking: Initial validation of the Criminogenic Thinking Profile. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Rehabilitation, 56, 1080-1102.

DiGiuseppe, R., & Tafrate, R. C. (2011). Anger regulation and expression scale (ARES). Multi-Health Systems (MHS). 

DiGiuseppe, R. C., & Tafrate, R. (2007). Understanding anger disorders. Oxford University Press.

 

SELECTED SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS

Tafrate, R. C., Bonta, J., Smith, P., & Mitchell, D. (2024, June). Panel Moderator. Lessons Learned from CBT Training Programs for Probation Officers. Panel discussion conducted at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa, Canada.

Jones, N. J., Tafrate, R. C., & Mitchell, D. (2024, June). Anger as a Criminogenic Need? 12-minute talk presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa, Canada.

Mitchell, D., Vincent G. M., Bourgon, G., Kroner, D. G. & Tafrate, R. C. (2023, June). Four Things Risk/Needs Assessment is Not. Panel discussion conducted at the 5th North American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Tafrate, R. C., & Mitchell, D. (2022, June). Addressing Values and Life Priorities with Justice-Involved Clients in a Risk Reduction Framework. Workshop presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Calgary, Canada.

Mitchell, D., Jones, N. J., & Tafrate, R. C. (2022, June). Gender Differences in Criminogenic Thinking of Justice-Involved Clients Reentering the Community. Research Snapshot presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Calgary, Canada.

Mitchell, D., Tafrate, R. C., Cox, S. M., & Hogan, T (2022, June). Measuring Communication Skills in Probation Officers Using the Response Style Questionnaire. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Calgary, Canada.

Cox, S. M., Tafrate, R. C., Mitchell, D., Hogan, T., Rugge, T., & Bourgon, G. (2021, November). An office approach to changing probation officer supervision. Poster presented at the annual meeting of American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL.

Tafrate, R. C. (2020, November). Utilizing Criminal Events as the Unit of Analysis in Forensic Case Formulation and Treatment. Mini-workshop conducted at the 54th annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Virtual Convention.

Tafrate. R. C., & Lapierre, B. (2019, August). What were you thinking? A cognitive-behavioral approach to community supervision. Workshop conducted at the American Probation and Parole Association 44th Annual Training Institute, San Francisco, CA.

Tafrate. R. C. (2019, June). Behavioural events as the unit of analysis in case formulation: Anger episodes and criminal offences. Workshop conducted at the 4th North American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology Conference, Halifax, Canada.

Jones, N. J., Tafrate. R. C., & Mitchell, D. (2019, March). Gender differences in criminal thinking patterns: Prevalence and predictive salience. In, Mental defenses, prisoners, gender and criminal thinking, and female parolees. Symposium conducted at the 50th annual conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Portland, OR.

Tafrate. R. C. (2018, September). Adapting CBT for Justice-Involved Clients (Part 2): Identifying and Restructuring Criminogenic Thinking. Annual conference of the International Community Corrections Association, San Antonio, TX.

Kassinove, H., & Tafrate, R. C. (2018, April). New and unique directions in SMART anger management: Or, what we knew we knew then and what we think we know now. National Anger Management Association Conference, Washington, DC. 

Tafrate. R. C., Cox, S. M, Mitchell, D., O’Neill C., & Kochol, P. (2017, November). Prospective risk evaluation for delinquency in Connecticut: Risk assessment tool for juvenile probation officers. In C. Tafrate (Chair), Forensic assessment: Applying evidence based principles to diverse settings and populations. Symposium conducted at the 51stannual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Diego, CA.

Tafrate. R. C. (2016, November). Critical issues in the conceptualization and treatment of anger. University of Massachusetts Medical School Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds Series, Worcester, MA.

Tafrate. R. C. (2016, November). Forensic CBT: An integrated approach for working with justice-involved clients. 21st Workshop on Aggression, Oradea, Romania.

Mitchell, D., Zarling, A., Davis, D., Martell, C., Tafrate, R. C., & DiGiuseppe, R. (2016, October). CBT in probation: Diverse perspectives on interviews with three justice-involved clients.  Clinical round table conducted at the 50th annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY. 

 

SELECTED WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

Tafrate, R. C. (2024, August). A Forensic Framework for Addressing Clients’ Criminogenic and Clinical Needs. Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, Washington, DC. 

Tafrate, R. C. (2024, July). A Primer on Criminogenic Thinking. Virtual workshop presented for Youth Justice Learning and Development, Queensland Australia.

Tafrate, R. C. (2024, July). A Forensic CBT Primer: Identifying and Restructuring Criminogenic Thinking. Virtual workshop presented for CBT Australia.

Tafrate, R. C. (2024, June). CBT for Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence. Virtual workshop presented for CBT Australia.

Tafrate, R. C. (2024, May). CBT for Anger. Virtual workshop presented for CBT Australia.

Tafrate, R. C. (2024, May). The Essentials of Motivational Interviewing. Virtual workshop presented for CBT Australia.

Tafrate, R. C. (2024, April). CBT for Anger: Best Practices for Engagement, Assessment, and Treatment (1-day Intensive Virtual Workshop). Presented for Centro de Psicoterapia Cognitiva.

Tafrate, R. C. (2023, June). Five training sessions/ Lectures on forensic CBT skills. Workshop presented for Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, Washington, DC. 

Tafrate, R. C. (2021, October). Motivational Interviewing for Forensic Clients. Virtual workshop presented for Clinical and Forensic Psychology Service of the Ministry of Social and Family Development, Singapore.

Tafrate, R. C. (2022, May). Five training sessions/ Lectures on forensic CBT skills. Workshop presented for Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, Washington, DC. 

Tafrate, R. C. (2022, May). Blending Motivational Interviewing with Risk-Need-Responsivity: What Professionals Need to Know. Virtual workshop presented for Safer Society Foundation.

Tafrate, R. C. (2021, September). Thinking That Drives Criminal Decisions: Overview of Criminogenic Thinking Patterns. Workshop presented for Administrative Office of the Courts/ Probation & Pretrial Services, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

Tafrate, R. C. (2021, September). Having Conversations About Thinking & Decision-Making. Workshop presented for Administrative Office of the Courts/ Probation & Pretrial Services, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

Tafrate, R. C. (2021, September). Restructuring Criminogenic Thinking: Strategies for Probation Officers. Workshop presented for Administrative Office of the Courts/ Probation & Pretrial Services, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

Tafrate, R. C. & Mitchell, D. (2016, July). Forensic CBT. Workshop presented for the Department of Juvenile Observation and Protection, Ministry of Justice, Bangkok, Thailand.

 

PROFESSIONAL BLOGS/ PODCASTS

(ANGER MANAGEMENT)

American Psychological Association, Speaking of Psychology (2022, March). How to keep anger from getting the best of you. https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/anger

Kassinove, H, & Tafrate, R. C. (2020). Anger: Tips for Treating This Natural But Potentially Destructive Emotion. New Harbinger Publications Quick Tips for Therapists. 

Kassinove, H, & Tafrate, R. C. (2020). Anger: Manage it with Lifestyle Changes. New Harbinger Publications Quick Tips for Therapists. 

Kassinove, H, & Tafrate, R. C. (2020). Anger: Manage it with Exposure. New Harbinger Publications Quick Tips for Therapists. 

Kassinove, H, & Tafrate, R. C. (2020). Anger: Manage it with Empathy and Perspective Taking. New Harbinger Publications Quick Tips for Therapists. 

(CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR)

Tafrate, R. C., Mitchell, D., & Simourd, D. J. (2019). Risk reduction: Be positive. CorrectTech Community Corrections Blog.   

Tafrate, R. C., Mitchell, D., & Simourd, D. J. (2019). 7 underappreciated hallmarks of criminal risk models. CorrectTech Community Corrections Blog. 

Tafrate, R. C., Mitchell, D., & Simourd, D. J. (2019). Understanding risk: A personal experiment. CorrectTech Community Corrections Blog.

Tafrate, R. C., Mitchell, D., & Simourd, D. J. (2019). Making sense of the interrelationship between criminal risk domains and mental health symptoms. CorrectTech Community Corrections Blog.

Tafrate, R. C., Mitchell, D., & Simourd, D. J. (2019). What’s behind the box. CorrectTech Community Corrections Blog.