RT Article
T1 The Relationship Between Treatment Alliance, Social Climate, and Treatment Readiness in Long-Term Forensic Psychiatric Care: an Explorative Study
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 64
IS 9
SP 1013
OP 1026
A1 Gaab, S.
A1 Brazil, I. A.
A1 Bulten, B. H.
A1 de Vries, M. G.
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1738563502
AB 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.
K1 Treatment readiness
K1 Therapeutic alliance
K1 Social climate
K1 Long-term forensic care
K1 Explorative
DO 10.1177/0306624X19899609