Attorneys’ Attitudes Toward Coaching Forensic Clients on the MMPI–2: Replication and Extension of Attorney Survey by Wetter and Corrigan (1995)

This article examines developments in mobile technologies that target the treatment and support needs of offenders in the community, and sets out three challenges that must be addressed if these interventions are to become part of the correctional programs environment. These are: how to identify good quality mobile applications that will yield genuine benefits for practitioners and service users; how to adapt forensic treatment approaches to work effectively in a mobile application environment, and how to make mobile applications available to forensic clients and motivate people to use them. Until these challenges are addressed the potential value of mobile technologies in providing greater access to forensic treatment will not be realised.

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Working Inter-Culturally With Probation and Forensic Clients

Working Inter-Culturally in Counselling Settings ◽

10.4324/9780203361214-14 ◽

2003 ◽

pp. 134-153

Keyword(s):

Forensic Clients

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Assessment and treatment of violence-prone forensic clients: an integrated approach

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.190.5.s66 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 190 (S49) ◽

pp. s66-s74 ◽

Cited By ~ 73

Author(s):

Stephen C. P. Wong ◽

Audrey Gordon ◽

Deqiang Gu

Keyword(s):

Personality Disorder ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Control Programme ◽

Outcome Evaluation ◽

Violence Risk ◽

Violence Reduction ◽

Treatment Readiness ◽

Assessment And Treatment ◽

Risk Need Responsivity ◽

Forensic Clients

BackgroundA risk-reduction treatment programme complemented by a focused assessment, both guided by the risk–need–responsivity principles, is suggested as the preferred treatment for violence-prone individuals with personality disorder.AimsViolence Reduction Programme (VRP) and Violence Risk Scale (VRS) were used to illustrate the design and implementation of such an approach. Participants from a similarly designed Aggressive Behaviour Control Programme were used to illustrate the principles discussed and to test programme efficacy.MethodThe VRS was used to assess risk/need and treatment readiness, and DSM–III/IV psychiatric diagnoses of 203 federal offenders.ResultsParticipants had a high probability of violent recidivism and many violence-linked criminogenic needs, similar to offenders with high PCL–R scores. Most had antisocial personality disorder and substance use disorders; in terms of treatment-readiness, most were in the contemplation stage of change. Outcome evaluation results support the objectives of the VRP.ConclusionsIntegrating risk–need–responsivity principles in assessment and treatment can provide useful guidelines for intervention with violence-prone forensic clients with personality disorder.

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