...Catherine Mullan; Darren Johnson; Jennifer Tomlinson Purpose Although support exists for the effectiveness of treatment for personality disordered offenders there is limited knowledge about the processes underlying the therapeutic change. The purpose of this paper is to explore the treatment...

...Jon Taylor Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe practices associated with compassion focussed therapy (CFT) in a secure forensic setting for men with a learning disability and personality disorder. The values of this model for both therapeutic work and the organisation of residential...

...Jane L. Ireland; Elisabeth Hansen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide some practice considerations for working with personality disorder, focusing on the application of assessment, formulation and therapy to complex populations such as forensic clients. In addressing...

...Alice L. Bennett Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the range of personality disorder diagnoses and levels of psychopathy as assessed by the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) associated with treatment discontinuation in a sample of adult male prisoners. Design/methodology...