Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities

Experiences of prison officers on a Lifer Psychologically Informed Planned Environment

Natalie Bond, Linda Gemmell

Psychologically Informed Planned Environments (PIPEs) provide a pathway facility for offenders with complex needs, such as personality disorder; to maintain and develop…

The Good Lives Model and therapeutic environments in forensic settings

Clare-Ann Fortune, Tony Ward, Devon L.L. Polaschek

There is increasing interest in applying strength-based approaches to offender rehabilitation. The purpose of this paper is to use the Good Lives Model (GLM) as an example…

An evaluation of an emotion regulation programme for people with an intellectual disability

Jenna McWilliams, Ian de Terte, Janet Leathem, Sandra Malcolm

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of the Transformers programme on individual's use of appropriate emotion regulation strategies.

The InReach project: from penitentiary to forensic hospital

Wouter Stassen, Petra Habets, Astrid Mertens, Jan De laender, Inge Jeandarme

In Belgium approximately a quarter of forensic psychiatric patients reside within penitentiaries instead of treatment facilities. This situation has yielded the Belgian…

Psychosocial functioning of drug treatment court clients: a study of the prosecutor's files in Ghent, Belgium

Ciska Wittouck, Anne Dekkers, Wouter Vanderplasschen, Freya Vander Laenen

Problem solving courts are a result of the therapeutic jurisprudence movement. Drug treatment courts (DTCs), for instance, aim to divert substance using offenders away…

Special issue on therapeutic environments in forensic settings

Mark Freestone, Stijn Vandevelde