Good-enough Care? How Patients’ Perceptions of Counselors’ Professional Skills Relate to Everyday Life in Forensic Long-stay Units
Steven Degrauwe,
Kim Dierckx,
Vicky Van Bulck
et al.
Abstract:The overall goal of long-term forensic care is to strive toward acceptable levels of adaptation and quality of life (QoL) of the forensic patient in the institutional context. While the bulk of the literature has focused on the deleterious consequences of personality pathology in this regard, research investigating the contribution of the quality of the therapeutic relationship has remained rather scant. Assuming that the perceived competence of the direct counselor, as perceived by patients, forms an importan… Show more
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