A therapeutic community for personality disorder in a high secure intellectual disability service: inception and early experiences Available to Purchase

This paper seeks to explain the reasons for use of a therapeutic community for personality disorder in a high secure intellectual disability service.

The paper describes the rationale for, and early experiences of, a therapeutic community intervention for people with mild intellectual disability and personality disorder in a high secure setting.

No empirical findings are reported. Evaluation is being undertaken and will be reported in due course.

The therapeutic community approach has not been applied in forensic intellectual disability before, and this paper therefore describes an original and, in many ways, radical intervention.