Psychologically informed practice (PIP) within the offender personality disorder pathway: Towards establishing an evidence base for approved premises

Abstract

The United Kingdom (UK) government has commissioned numerous interventions across all stages of the criminal justice pathway for managing offenders likely to have a personality disorder, with the intention to reduce reoffending, improve psychological wellbeing, and develop workforce capabilities. Psychologically Informed Practice (PIP) models underpin these. To evaluate a modified PIP model within the post-imprisonment community stage of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway, specifically workforce development, within all London (UK) probation supervised hostels (approved premises), we used both non-equivalent control group and pre-post repeated measure designs to compare changes in staff and offender outcomes before and after introduction of a PIP model across all 12 London approved premises. Findings revealed statistically significant improvements in a number of workforce outcomes (measured using the Personality Disorder-Knowledge, Attitudes and Skills Questionnaire and Maslach Burnout Inventory) which were moderated by age and gender. Data did not support associated improvements in resident offender outcomes (progressive moves, rearrests/reoffences, or breaches leading to recalls). The modified PIP is an effective intervention model for improving some workforce

An evaluation of a pilot multi-professional offender personality disorder (OPD) higher education programme

“…Because of the inception of the OPD pathway, there has been an active drive to educate the criminal justice workforce, including clinical staff such as nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists and offender managers from probation and prison services. The education is driven by evidence-based practice from health services research to develop a traumainformed, formulation driven and psychologically informed workforce who are interpersonally effective (Bruce et al, 2020;Mapplebeck et al, 2016;Radcliffe et al, 2017).…”

“…Because of the inception of the OPD pathway, there has been an active drive to educate the criminal justice workforce, including clinical staff such as nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists and offender managers from probation and prison services. The education is driven by evidence-based practice from health services research to develop a trauma-informed, formulation driven and psychologically informed workforce who are interpersonally effective (Bruce et al , 2020; Mapplebeck et al , 2016; Radcliffe et al , 2017). Understanding of the importance of relational aspects of working with people with personality difficulties and the role that self, the system and others play within it is anticipated to improve therapeutic relationships and effectiveness (Haigh and Benefield, 2019).…”

Using a meta-ethnographic approach to explore the role of interprofessional education in inclusion health for health and care staff

“…The search did not identify studies specifically covering psychologically informed approaches and IPE, which is core to IH practice. A further search by ZK revealed one study set in the probation service that met the inclusion criteria, but this was published after our search (Bruce et al. , 2020).…”