What works in therapeutic prisons [electronic resource] : evaluating psychological change in Dovegate Therapeutic Community /
Brown, J.author.
Miller, S.author.
Northey, S.author.
O'Neill, D.author.
Uniquely examining the first purpose-built prison community of its kind, HMP Dovegate Therapeutic Community, this book assesses individual prisoners' progress through therapy and provides an evidence base to support investment into prison-based therapeutic communities. Charting the process of change, the authors highlight the fundamentals required for prisoners to address their motivations and criminal patterns of behaviour, revealing that strong therapeutic alliances and willingness to ask for help as well as offering help to others are critical. The most comprehensive coverage of therapeutic communities to date, this book will be an important resource for students and practitioners working in prisons and with high-risk personality disordered offenders, providing recommendations for building the best possible environment for prisoners to enhance their self-esteem, improve their behaviour and establish skills to desist. --Book Jacket.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; Foreword; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; 1 Aims and Overview; 2 The "What Works" Debate and the Fit of Prison-Based Democratic TCs; 3 Controversies, Beginnings and Workings of the Dovegate TC; 4 The Data; 5 Personality Disorder; 6 Changes over Time: The Psychometric Data; 7 Experiential Perspectives from within the TC: The Focus Groups; 8 Attachments: The Multiple Sorting Task Procedure; 9 After the TC: Post-Residency Questionnaire, Interviews and Psychometrics; 10 Back in the Outside World: Case Studies of Former Residents on Release
11 Getting It: A Quantification of Long-Term Outcomes12 Practice Issues and Research Overview; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Uniquely examining the first purpose-built prison community of its kind, HMP Dovegate Therapeutic Community, this book assesses individual prisoners' progress through therapy and provides an evidence base to support investment into prison-based therapeutic communities. Charting the process of change, the authors highlight the fundamentals required for prisoners to address their motivations and criminal patterns of behaviour, revealing that strong therapeutic alliances and willingness to ask for help as well as offering help to others are critical. The most comprehensive coverage of therapeutic communities to date, this book will be an important resource for students and practitioners working in prisons and with high-risk personality disordered offenders, providing recommendations for building the best possible environment for prisoners to enhance their self-esteem, improve their behaviour and establish skills to desist. --Book Jacket.
HMP Dovegate Therapeutic Community.
Criminology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Forensic psychology.
Corrections.
Punishment.
Experiential research.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Forensic Psychology.
Prison and Punishment.
Psychology Research.