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lecture 11 - rehabilitative regimes and cultures Flashcards

1
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rehabilitation is underpinned by?

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  • aims
  • values
  • principles
  • etiological assumptions
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what are the origins of cognitive-behavioural offending behaviour programmes? OBPs

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origins in canadia ‘what works’ psychological research

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what are prison based therapeutic communities? TCs
origins
what regime

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  • origins in social psychiatry
  • distinctive regime for personality disordered offenders
  • for serious offenders
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4
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what embodiment of values is in rehabilitative cultures and enabling environments

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  • core therapeutic community values (TCs)
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5
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2 examples of rehabilitation in prisons

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  • purposeful activities
  • offending behaviour programmes
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6
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accredited offending behaviour programmes have what type of participation

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  • ‘voluntary’ participation
  • risk assessment
  • treatment readiness
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offending behaviour programmes are mostly what type of program?

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cognitive behavioural

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8
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what is cognitive behaviouralism
crime results from what thinking process?
combined with…
reinforced with what behaviour?

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crime results from
- distorted thinking processes
- combined with socially and experientially learned and
- reinforced maladaptive behaviours

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9
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how does cognitive behavioural therapy change offenders?
links to what sociological theory?

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  • cognitions can be monitored and changed resulting in socially desirable attitudes and behaviours
  • Links to bandura social learning theory
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10
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how do prisons use cognitive behavioural therapy in prisons

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for a fixed duration and mostly groupwork

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11
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how effect are cognitive OBPs?
what programme can we use to improve them

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mixed evidence and effectiveness (reconviction rates)
- may require booster programme
- or deliver cognitive OBP post-release in the community

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12
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what does carlen 2002 say about prison not being a therapeutic setting

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carceral clawback of security and control
- mostly concerned with keeping people locked up rather than sending positive messages

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13
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what focus does the risk-need-responsivity model have

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deficits focused

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14
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what is the risk section?
what risk to focus on?

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intensity and type of rehab programme must match the offenders assessed level of risk of re-offending
- focus on high to medium risk only
- may be harmful to low risk offenders

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15
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what is the need level?

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dynamic factors and criminogenic needs only
- need to only work on the things we can change = the big 4 variables

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16
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what are the big 4 variables of the need section?

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  • pro-criminal attitudes
  • people you associate with
  • anti-social personality disorder
  • offending history
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17
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what is the specific responsivity section

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treatment must be delivered using specific methods and styles to which offender will respond to

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18
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what is the general responsivity section?
examples

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use only what research suggests works
- correctional services advice
-accreditation panel

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19
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what type of model is the good lives model

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strengths-based

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20
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what is the premise of good lives model

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  • people are goal directed and seek out primary good to increase well-being, fulfilment
  • these are achieved through secondary goods (relationships, education, careers etc)
  • offending happens when the desired goods are
    -not achievable appropriately,
    too limited,
    in conflict with other goals,
    or lack capacity to adapt
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21
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in the good lives model how does treatment focus on meeting those goods?

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holistically and pro-socially - more positive way of thinking
- avoidance or elimination of goals are not sufficient or always possible
- living a good life not just a less harmful one

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22
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what are they key concerns for general offending cognitive behavioural OBPs?

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  • cognitive distortions and deficits
  • poor consequential thinking
  • rigid and dichotomous thinking
  • poor impulse control
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23
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what is an example of cognitive OBPs for general offending
how does it help

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thinking skills programme
- develops problem-solving skills and
-social perspective taking

24
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what example cognitive behavioural OBP is applicable to multiple programmes

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kaizen
because its relating to violent offences

25
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what contrasts cognitive behavioural approach

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therapeutic community (TC) regime

26
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what do therapeutic communities regimes consist of for treatment

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  • small group psychosocial therapy
  • community meetings
  • rep jobs and communal living
27
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what is psychic determinism

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everything has meaning
- everything that happened to you as some meaning in your life and impacts the way you behave now

28
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what happens in small group psychosocial therapy

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  • slow open groups, non-directive
  • residents as auxiliary therapists
  • psychodrama and art therapy
29
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what happens in community meetings?

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  • democratisaiton and flattened hierarchy
  • self-policing and theraputic feedback
  • commitment votes
30
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what happens in rep jobs and communal living

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  • communal dining
    -social evenings and family visits
31
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What does early abuse, trauma and insecure attachment cause

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  • unconsicous conflicting motives
  • fears
  • unresolved conflcits
    resulting in maladaptive protective behaviours
32
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what does early abuse, trauma and insecure attachment require for treatment

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strip them right back to where things go wrong and create alternative type of family in a secure base
- environment that is secure and comforting and accepting
- this environment allows corrective emotional experience

33
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what is social learning in therapeutic community regimes

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two way communication of content and feeling, listening, interaction, and problem solving
- trying to learn from each other by talking about your problems

34
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5 examples of TC in penal estate

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  • grendon
  • gartree
  • dovegate
  • warren hill
  • send
35
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when did grendon open

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1962

36
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how many places in grendon
how many for sexual offneders
and how many for TCs

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233 places
40 for sex offenders
20 for TC

37
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what was grendon used for?

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for the damaged, disturbed, and dangerous

38
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what did grendon have the highest of

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highest MQPL of Cat B prisons

39
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what does the prisoner have to do for TCs in the penal state

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  • prisoner must voluntarily apply and be assessed as suitable
40
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what is the minimum stay for TC

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18 months

41
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is there CSU (segregation) in TCs

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no

42
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what type of staff teams do TC have

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multidisciplinary staff teams

43
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what disorder pathway are TCs embedded in

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embedded in offender personality disorder pathway

44
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what is the estimated need for TC in penal state
what % are men
what % are women

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2,392 prisoners
5% men
8% women

45
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how much of the prison population can currently benefit from TCs

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less than 1% of prison population

46
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How TCs work?

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  • develop insight into ones life and behaviours
  • enculturation into the TC way
  • secure attachment to peers and staff role models
47
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what effect can TC have of higher expectations

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pygmalion effect

48
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what is pygmalion effect of higher expecations in TCs

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  • self determination theory
  • culture carriers and normative compliance
  • can provide turning point for change
49
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self determination theory

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people need to feel in control of their own behaviour and goals
- sense of being able to take direct action that will result in real change in helping people be self-determined

50
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why are TCs unsuitable for most prisoners

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they are distinct and marginal

51
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what do TC exemplify the importance of and encourage thinking about how to create

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  • rehabilitative culture
  • enabling environment
52
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why are TC rehabilitative values important
what practices are important by staff

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  • the values are important in themselves but also essential for treatment efficacy
  • importance of pro-social modelling by staff and positive encouragement of change
53
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what should be embedded in the prison regime?

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change for the better

54
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which model dominates theory of offender rehabilitation and is operationalised through cognitive behavioural OBPs

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RNR model

55
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what do TCs offer an alternative on
for what type of offenders

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an alternative model of imprisonment and rehabilitation for personality disordered offenders

56
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what do TC values and practices provide a template for prisons seeking to provide an enabling environment and rehabilitative culture?

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one in which the relational and organisational nature of the treatment setting facilitates change

57
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