Grendon and the Emergence of Forensic Therapeutic Communities : Developments in Research and Practice

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Pub. Date: 2010-02-01
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Summary

This unique collection of research and practice papers highlight HMP Grendon's groundbreaking and sustained contribution to our understanding of the role therapeutic communities have in effective interventions with offenders. Reveals the history and research behind HMP Grendon, one of the first prisons to develop therapeutic communities Combines a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research papers, coupled with historical, theoretical and practice commentary Features quantitative research based on unusually complete and extensive records, collected over an extended period and stored in Grendon's database Provides an international perspective with prominent figures from America and Holland

Table of Contents

About the Editors
Contributing Authors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Developments in Therapeutic Communities
Introduction
Introducing Forensic Democratic Therapeutic Communities
Dovegate Therapeutic Community: Bid, Birth, Growth and Survival
The Van der Hoeven Clinic: a Flexible and Innovative Forensic Psychiatric Hospital Based on Therapeutic Community Principles
A Therapeutic Distinction with a Difference: Comparing American Concept-Based Therapeutic Communities and British Democratic Therapeutic Community Treatment for Prison Inmates
Towards a Social Analytical Therapy
Practice
Putting Principles into Practice: The Therapeutic Community Regime at HMP Grendon and its Relationship with the 'Good Lives' Model
Personality Disorder: Using Therapeutic Communities as an Integrative Approach to Address Risk
Psychodrama as Part of Core Therapy at HMP Grendon
Self and Social Function: Art Therapy and Readiness for Treatment in a Therapeutic Community Prison
Undertaking Therapy at HMP Grendon with Men Who Have Committed Sexual Offences
Research and Outcomes
Reflections on Grendon: Interviews with Men Who Are About to Leave
'This can't be real': Continuity at HMP Grendon
The Experience of Officers in a Therapeutic Prison: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Emotional Influence and Empathy in Prison-Based Therapeutic Communities
The Quality of Life of Prisoners and Staff at HMP Grendon
Suicide and Self-injurious Behaviours at HMP Grendon
Changes in Prison Offending Among Residents of a Prison-Based Therapeutic Community
Changes in Interpersonal Relating Following Therapeutic Community Treatment at HMP Grendon
The Experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Prisoners in a Therapeutic Community Prison
Research in Prison
Index
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