Publication
Title
The relationship between treatment alliance, social climate, and treatment readiness in long-term forensic psychiatric care : an explorative study
Author
Abstract
For patients in long-term forensic psychiatric care (LFPC), a continuous search for treatment possibilities remains important. An alternative viewpoint to these patients as being untreatable is considering them having low treatment readiness. Treatment readiness incorporates internal client-specific factors as well as factors in the therapeutic situation. In the therapeutic situation both social climate and therapeutic alliance are of positive influence on treatment outcome. In this explorative study of 38 male patients in Dutch LFPC, we found correlations with strong (Bayesian) evidence between internal factors of treatment readiness, treatment alliance, and "Therapeutic Hold," which is a subscale of social climate. In a Bayesian linear regression analysis, however, therapeutic hold seemed to be the only strong predictor of internal treatment readiness. These results give way to further research into the factors specifically contributing to the found correlations, in order to create opportunities to enlarge treatment readiness for patients in forensic care.
Language
English
Source (journal)
International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology / Association for Psychiatric Treatment of Offenders [New York] - London
Publication
Thousand oaks : Sage publications inc , 2020
ISSN
0306-624X
DOI
10.1177/0306624X19899609
Volume/pages
14 p.
Article Reference
0306624X19899609
ISI
000509206700001
Pubmed ID
31984841
Medium
E-only publicatie
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
UAntwerpen
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Research group
Publication type
Subject
Law 
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Creation 04.03.2020
Last edited 02.12.2024
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