What Works in Therapeutic Prisons : Evaluating Psychological Change in Dovegate Therapeutic Community

Exploring the first purpose-built prison community of its kind, the HMP Dovegate Therapeutic Community, this book provides the most comprehensive coverage of this research to date, following the progress of individual prisoners' through therapy and highlighting the key essentials for prisoners to address their motivations and criminal behaviour. 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 Key Essentials Necessary 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 Offenders, Providing Recommendations For Building The Best Possible Environment For Prisoners To Enhance Their Self-esteem, Improve Their Behaviour And Establish Skills To Desist. Preface; Roland Woodward -- 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 Outcomes -- 12. Practice Issues And Research Overview. Jennifer Brown, Sarah Miller, Sara Northey And Darragh O'neill. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 262-278) 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 Front Matter....Pages i-xx Aims and Overview....Pages 1-18 The “What Works” Debate and the Fit of Prison-Based Democratic TCs....Pages 19-29 Controversies, Beginnings and Workings of the Dovegate TC....Pages 30-45 The Data....Pages 46-74 Personality Disorder....Pages 75-93 Changes over Time: The Psychometric Data....Pages 94-115 Experiential Perspectives from within the TC: The Focus Groups....Pages 116-138 Attachments: The Multiple Sorting Task Procedure....Pages 139-159 After the TC: Post-Residency Questionnaire, Interviews and Psychometrics....Pages 160-185 Back in the Outside World: Case Studies of Former Residents on Release....Pages 186-207 Getting It: A Quantification of Long-Term Outcomes....Pages 208-238 Practice Issues and Research Overview....Pages 239-258 Back Matter....Pages 259-283