scholarly journals Good Lives Model: Importance of Interagency Collaboration in Preventing Violent Recidivism

Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Jaimee Sheila Mallion
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Good Lives Model ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Client Care ◽  
Criminal Justice Systems ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Primary Goods ◽  
Project Lead ◽  
Good Lives

Violence is a complex and multifaceted problem requiring a holistic and individualized response. The Good Lives Model (GLM) suggests violence occurs when an individual experiences internal and external obstacles in the pursuit of universal human needs (termed primary goods). With a twin focus, GLM-consistent interventions aim to promote attainment of primary goods, whilst simultaneously reducing risk of reoffending. This is achieved by improving an individuals’ internal (i.e., skills and abilities) and external capacities (i.e., opportunities, environments, and resources). This paper proposes that collaborations between different agencies (e.g., psychological services, criminal justice systems, social services, education, community organizations, and healthcare) can support the attainment of primary goods through the provision of specialized skills and resources. Recommendations for ensuring interagency collaborations are effective are outlined, including embedding a project lead, regular interagency meetings and training, establishing information sharing procedures, and defining the role each agency plays in client care.

scholarly journals Good Lives Model: Importance of Interagency Collaboration in Preventing Violent Recidivism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaimee Sheila Mallion
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Good Lives Model ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Client Care ◽  
Criminal Justice Systems ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Primary Goods ◽  
Project Lead ◽  
Good Lives

Violence is a complex and multifaceted problem requiring a holistic and individualized response. The Good Lives Model (GLM) suggests violence occurs when an individual experiences internal and external obstacles in the pursuit of universal human needs (termed primary goods). With a twin focus, GLM-consistent interventions aim to promote attainment of primary goods, whilst simultaneously reducing risk of reoffending. This is achieved by improving an individuals’ internal (i.e., skills and abilities) and external capacities (i.e., opportunities, environments, and resources). This paper proposes that collaborations between different agencies (e.g., psychological services, criminal justice systems, social services, education, community organizations and healthcare) can support the attainment of primary goods through the provision of specialized skills and resources. Recommendations for ensuring interagency collaborations are effective are outlined, including embedding a project lead, regular interagency meetings and training, establishing information sharing procedures, and defining the role each agency plays in client care.

Explaining post-prison rehabilitation through music from the Good Lives Model perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 147737082199733
Author(s):  
Moshe Bensimon
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Bonding ◽  
Life Purpose ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Good Lives Model ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Primary Goods ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Good Lives ◽  
Programme Staff

Whereas many research studies have discussed the impact of music programmes in a prison setting, few studies have investigated the impact of music programmes that take place outside the prison and are intended for formerly incarcerated individuals. The current study aims to fill this void by examining the experience of formerly incarcerated individuals who participated in a group music programme intended to assist them on their journey towards rehabilitation. Five formerly incarcerated individuals who participated in the Sounding Out Programme (SOP), a group music programme funded by the Irene Taylor Trust in London, were interviewed for this research. In addition, three programme staff members were interviewed in order to gain further perspective on the process. Content analysis of the interviews indicated the emergence of four central themes: improved social bonding, a sense of hope and life purpose, a sense of achievement, and transformation. These findings are discussed in light of the Good Lives Model (GLM). Accordingly, the SOP assisted both formerly incarcerated individuals and programme staff members in attaining the following GLM primary goods in life: community, relatedness, knowledge, spirituality, excellence in work and play, excellence in agency, and creativity.

Positive Psychology Applications

2009 ◽  
pp. 34-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Alex Linley ◽  
Stephen Joseph ◽  
John Maltby ◽  
Susan Harrington ◽  
Alex M. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Humanistic Psychology ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Organizational Scholarship ◽  
Client Centered Therapy ◽  
Good Lives

Applied positive psychology is concerned with facilitating good lives and enabling people to be at their best. It is as much an approach as a particular domain of inquiry. As shown throughout this chapter, positive psychology has applications that span almost every area of applied psychology and beyond. In clinical psychology, counseling and psychotherapy, applied positive psychology builds on the traditions of humanistic psychology and Carl Rogers' client-centered therapy. It challenges the dominant assumptions of the medical model and promotes a dimensional, rather than dichotomous, understanding of mental health and mental illness. Beyond the alleviation of psychopathology, applied positive psychology has also seen the development of specific happiness-increase interventions, including counting one's blessings, using signature strengths, and paying a gratitude visit. In education, applied positive psychology has been used to promote flow in the classroom, as well as harnessing children's strengths to aid their learning and development. Forensic applications of positive psychology are represented by the good lives model of offender management, which focuses on the adaptive satisfaction of human needs. In Industrial Organizational (I/O) psychology, positive psychology applications are represented throughout work on transformational leadership, employee engagement, positive organizational scholarship, positive organizational behavior, appreciative inquiry, and strengths-based organization. In society, more broadly, applied positive psychology is shown to influence the development of life coaching and the practice of executive coaching, while population approaches are being explored in relation to epidemiology and the promotion of social well-being. Having reviewed these diverse areas, the chapter then goes on to consider the theoretical basis for applied positive psychology; the questions of who should apply positive psychology, as well as where and how; and whether positive psychology applications could be universally relevant. The chapter concludes by considering what the future of applied positive psychology may hold and suggesting that the discipline has the potential to impact positively on people throughout the world.

The Good Lives Model: A New Paradigm for Forensic Mental Health

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Barnao ◽  
Tony Ward ◽  
Peter Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Forensic Mental Health ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Good Lives Model ◽  
Good Lives

Does the good lives model work? A systematic review of the recidivism evidence

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-300
Author(s):  
Jenna Zeccola ◽  
Sally Fiona Kelty ◽  
Douglas Boer
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Correct Treatment ◽  
Recidivism Rates ◽  
Good Lives Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reducing Recidivism ◽  
Prison Community ◽  
Treatment Dosage ◽  
Good Lives

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficacy of good lives model (GLM) interventions on the recidivism outcomes of convicted offenders. Design/methodology/approach The review adhered to preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis and Cochrane guidelines. Digital databases were searched and articles reporting outcomes of the GLM amongst convicted offenders and outcomes including recidivism data and pre-post measures of dynamic risk were included in a narrative synthesis. Findings Of 1,791 articles screened, only six studies met the criteria for review. Key findings were: in half the reviewed studies, GLM did not increase recidivism risk; in half the reviewed studies, only when the correct treatment dosage was applied that some evidence of risk reduction was found; there was limited support for GLM increasing or sustaining motivation for resistance from reoffending. Research for the review was limited and support for the GLM in reducing recidivism rates was not established. Practical implications In this 2021 review, the authors examined the efficacy of the GLM in reducing recidivism. This addresses a gap in the literature. The authors found that there is insufficient evidence to suggest that the GLM can reduce recidivism. This has implications for practitioners who wish to deliver evidence-based practices in prison/community settings. There is currently not enough peer-reviewed evidence to unequivocally confirm the efficacy of the GLM. The authors recommended additional quality programme outcome research be carried out. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to assess quantitative and qualitative studies on the efficacy of the GLM and provides foundations for future research.

(Neo)liberalizing the state – Privatization of core government competencies

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 612-648
Author(s):  
Johannes Scherling
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Public Services ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Profit Motive ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Us ◽  
Neoliberal Economics ◽  
Corpus Size ◽  
Basic Human Needs

Abstract For a few decades now and most prominently promoted by the US, neoliberal economics have been on the rise, epitomized in recent austerity policies with regard to countries that have met financial trouble. In particular the drive for privatization of core public services relating to basic human needs, such as water, social services or pensions, has been increasingly criticized because of a perceived incompatibility between the profit motive and social solidarity. This article uses a corpus-based analysis of the discourse on privatization in the US of proponents supporting, respectively opposing it, with an overall corpus size of about 230,000 tokens. It examines how the two groups conceptualize privatization differently and which strategies are applied to fore- or background particular aspects of it.

Self-regulation of sex offending, future pathways and the Good Lives Model: Applications and problems

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Lindsay ◽  
Tony Ward ◽  
Tom Morgan ◽  
Iris Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Sex Offending ◽  
Good Lives Model ◽  
Good Lives

Quand la justice restaurative rencontre le Good Lives Model de réhabilitation des délinquants sexuels : fondements, articulations et applications

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geneviève Coco ◽  
Serge Corneille
Keyword(s):  
Good Lives Model ◽  
Good Lives ◽  
Premiere Partie ◽  
Pratique Clinique

Résumé À partir de la littérature scientifique et de leur pratique clinique, les auteurs discutent les modèles pénologiques et d’intervention psychologique destinée aux délinquants sexuels. Une première partie du propos présente le modèle de justice réparatrice et/ou restaurative à la lumière des modèles pénologiques qui l’ont précédé. Une seconde partie est consacrée au Good Lives Model, le modèle d’intervention psychologique le plus récent. Dans une troisième partie, les auteurs détaillent les liens unissant le modèle de justice réparatrice et/ou restaurative au Good Lives Model et exposent, dans une quatrième partie, diverses applications de ces modèles dans le champ de la délinquance sexuelle. Enfin, l’humanisme véhiculé par ces nouveaux modèles est valorisé dans une brève conclusion.

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