TY - JOUR
T1 - An evaluation of new services for personality-disordered offenders
T2 - staff and service user perspectives.
AU - Fortune, Zoë
AU - Rose, Diana
AU - Crawford, Mike
AU - Slade, Mike
AU - Spence, Ruth
AU - Mudd, David
AU - Barrett, Barbara
AU - Coid, Jeremy W.
AU - Tyrer, Peter
AU - Moran, Paul
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - BACKGROUND: Little is known about effective treatment for personality-disordered (PD) offenders. We aimed to obtain the perspective of service users and staff on: (a) the experience of receiving treatment; and (b) the experience of delivering treatment, within new forensic services for PD offenders. MATERIAL: Thematic analysis was applied to qualitative interviews with 30 service users and 22 staff. DISCUSSION: Service users perceived that they were making positive changes in the areas of anger management, communication, self-harm, self-esteem and insight into their difficulties. Undertaking the clinical work was extremely stressful for staff. CONCLUSIONS: Forensic PD services may be having an important impact on the quality of service users' lives. Whether treatment is successful in reducing long-term risk to others remains to be seen, and the cost-effectiveness of these services needs to be examined.
AB - BACKGROUND: Little is known about effective treatment for personality-disordered (PD) offenders. We aimed to obtain the perspective of service users and staff on: (a) the experience of receiving treatment; and (b) the experience of delivering treatment, within new forensic services for PD offenders. MATERIAL: Thematic analysis was applied to qualitative interviews with 30 service users and 22 staff. DISCUSSION: Service users perceived that they were making positive changes in the areas of anger management, communication, self-harm, self-esteem and insight into their difficulties. Undertaking the clinical work was extremely stressful for staff. CONCLUSIONS: Forensic PD services may be having an important impact on the quality of service users' lives. Whether treatment is successful in reducing long-term risk to others remains to be seen, and the cost-effectiveness of these services needs to be examined.
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M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
C2 - 19592447
AN - SCOPUS:77952510920
SN - 1741-2854
VL - 56
SP - 186
EP - 195
JO - International Journal of Social Psychiatry
JF - International Journal of Social Psychiatry
IS - 2
ER -