Therapy in confined spaces: forensic scheme therapy with severe personality disorder

The emergence of legislation that allows offenders to be detained beyond their prison sentence has brought into particular focus the value of intervention for high-risk offenders. Whilst the traditional treatment programs adopting a skills-based cognitive behaviour approach have shown utility in reducing assessed risk, a sub-set of offenders continue to struggle to engage and benefit from the treatments offered in custodial contexts. Since many of these individuals have characteristic problems associated with severe personality disorder, the challenge for practitioners is less about identifying risk and more about overcoming responsivity issues.

This presentation will discuss the challenges and pitfalls of working with offenders in this context with a particular focus on the application of forensic schema therapy to severe personality disorder.

Materials

• Therapy in confined spaces: forensic schema therapy with severe personality disorder [PDF]
• Forensic schema therapy: an introduction [PDF]

Contact

For further information please contact ANZAPPL QLD President Mark Kebbell on m.kebbell@griffith.edu.au