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  1. Text Box: So why didn't Florida criminal lawyer Stephen G. Cobb's One Stop Therapy program fail to achieve the solution to social problem of crime? Although the program utilized the best diagnostic techniques available, the actual organ responsible for human behavior, the brain, was never examined. When you think about it, this is obvious - would you trust a physician to treat you child with a broken arm if they didn't bother to take an X-ray? Of course not! Yet historically, psychiatrists and psychologists have not directly examined a functioning human brain. All diagnosis was based on guessing without examining the organ in question. Now, with SPECT, PET and fMRI technology, we can actually examine the organ responsible for human behavior. This is truly revolutionary. Many treatments actually made the problem worse, not better. The failure to examine the organ responsible for human behavior resulted in treatment modalities that did not fit the exact brain systems needing specific treatments. Think of it this way: None of  us need a brain scan to tell if someone is depressed - depression has many symptoms that are so obvious that lay people without specialized training can easily spot. Trained professionals can detect even more symptoms of depression. However, the same symptoms can be caused by dysfunction in very different brain systems. Therefore, we need the neuroimaging to tell us which specific brain systems need to be treated to end the patient's depression. This is why the "cookie cutter" approach works for some people and not others: Some of the patients just got lucky - the treatment program matched their individualized treatment needs. Overall, "cookie cutter" programs have a success rate of roughly twenty percent (20%) over a five (5) year post-treatment period. OST 1.0 had a much better success rate because we used professionals who were not using a "cookie cutter" approach to diagnosis and treatment. There was no accountability procedure. Did the patient take their medicine? Did they go to counseling? These things had no accountability procedure. The dismal state sponsored programs do have an accountability system. They tend fail for around eighty percent of participants over a five year post-program follow through study because they fail to tailor the treatment to the needs of the patient.  However, Florida criminal lawyer Stephen G. Cobb became convinced that accountability - within reason - was a cornerstone to program success. So how is OST 2.0 different? Starting with bond, patients are accountable for their treatment compliance. Diagnosis is more refined - brain scan is compulsory as it allows treatment providers to more accurately target treatment to the individual needs of the patient. These two changes may seem to be minor. However, they dramatically change the entire process. These changes completely alter how OST operates: They provide the most accurate diagnosis available and they provide a mechanism for ensuring compliance. What does the human brain look like? Click here. Here is what happens when a serious brain illness is undiagnosed and a major felony results. This death penalty case out of Crestview, Florida (as reported on by the Associated Press) shows what happens when a certain, specific type of major brain dysfunction goes untreated.
 
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