Motivating Offenders to Change A Guide to Enhancing Engagement in Therapy

by McMurran, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780471497554
• ISBN10: 047149755X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-22
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

There is increasing pressure, soon to be legislation, for particular offenders to be given a choice of psychological treatment or imprisonment, even if treatment must sometimes be within special prison hospitals or units for offenders. The key issue will be motivating offenders to commit themselves to treatment, and to maintain their motivation trough the therapeutic programme and thereafter, on release. This is the first book to tackle the subject of motivating offenders in therapeutic programmes and as such, will prove an invaluable resource for forensic practitioners. * Written by some of the top clinical and forensic practitioners and researchers in offender rehabilitation * There is a real demand for a book on this subject as a result of changes in criminal justice policy and in mental health provision Part of the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology

Author Biography

<b>Dr. Mary McMuran</b> is Senior Baxter Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK, and is funded by the Department of Health's National Programme for Forensic Mental Health Research and Development. She is both a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and a Chartered Forensic Psychologist, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She has worked with offenders in a young offender's center, a maximum security psychiatric hospital, a regional secure unit, and in the community. Over the years, she has taken a particular interest in alcohol and crime, a topic on which she has published widely, and in the treatment of personality disordered offenders. She is the author of several structured treatment programmes for such offenders, and these are now widely used in the UK. She is a former Chair of the British Psychological Society's Division of Criminological and Legal Psychology (now the Division of Forensic Psychology), and founding editor of the journal <I>Legal and Criminological Psychology</I>.

Table of Contents

About the Editor	vii
List of Contributors	ix
Series Editors' preface	xiii
Preface	xvii
PART I UNDERSTANDING MOTIVATION TO CHANGE	1	(54)
Motivation to change: selection criterion or treatment need?	3	(12)
Mary McMurran
What is motivation to change? A scientific analysis	15	(16)
Vanessa Lopez Viets
Denise D. Walker
William R. Miller
An individual case formulation approach to the assessment of motivation	31	(24)
Lawrence Jones
PART II MOTIVATIONAL ENHANCEMENT IN PRACTICE	55	(82)
Enhancing motivation of offenders at each stage of change and phase of therapy	57	(18)
James O. Prochaska
Deborah A. Levesque
Building and nurturing a therapeutic alliance with offenders	75	(12)
Christopher Cordess
Motivational interviewing with offenders	87	(16)
Ruth E. Mann
Joel I. D. Ginsberg
John R. Weekes
Motivating offenders to change through participatory theatre	103	(18)
James Thompson
Maintaining motivation for change using resources available in an offender's natural environment	121	(16)
Glenn D. Walters
PART III SPECIAL ISSUES	137	(122)
Ethical issues in motivating offenders to change	139	(18)
Ronald Blackburn
Motivation for what? Effective programmes for motivated offenders	157	(16)
James McGuire
Owning your own data: the management of denial	173	(20)
D. Richard Laws
Motivating the unmotivated: psychopathy, treatment, and change	193	(28)
James F. Hemphill
Stephen D. Hart
Motivating mentally disordered offenders	221	(14)
John E. Hodge
Stanley J. Renwick
Does punishment motivate offenders to change?	235	(16)
Clive R. Hollin
Future directions	251	(8)
Mary McMurran
Index	259