Annex C
PRISON SERVICE OFFENDING BEHAVIOUR PROGRAMMES
Enhanced Thinking Skills
1. Addresses thinking and behaviour associated
with offending. Treatment targets: impulse control, cognitive
style, social perspective taking, values/moral reasoning, critical
reasoning, and inter-personal problem solving. The programme employs
a sequenced series of structured exercises designed to teach interpersonal
problem solving skills. It is targeted at male and female medium
to medium-high risk offenders, and can be sequenced with another
programme. It is primarily aimed at sex, violent or drug offenders.
The programme is 20 sessions of 2 to 2.5 hours over a four to
10 week period (40 to 50 hours total).
Reasoning and Rehabilitation
2. Teaches offenders a range of social and
cognitive skills. Treatment targets are the same as for ETS programme
above. It also provides a sequenced series of structured sessions
designed to teach inter-personal problem solving. It is targeted
at male and female high-risk offenders. The programme is 38 sessions
of 2 to 2.5 hours each, spread up to 13 weeks at three sessions
per week or 19 weeks at two sessions per week (76 hours total).
Controlling Anger and Learning to Manage it (CALM)
3. This programme aims to reduce aggressive
and offending behaviour which is related to poor emotional management,
through teaching social skills, and emotional management techniques.
Treatment targets: reduced aggression through management of emotion,
understanding factors that trigger anger, learning new skills
to reduce emotional levels of arousal, challenging thinking that
creates and sustains arousal, learning new skills to deal with
provocation and conflict, problem solving, management of other
emotions and relapsed prevention. This programme is targeted at
medium-risk male offenders convicted of assault, public order
or criminal damage. The programme contains 24 sessions of 2 to
2.5 hours plus three individual sessions over an eight to 24 week
period.
Cognitive Self-Change Programme (CSCP)
4. A rolling programme that is aimed to
reduce instrumental violence and offending behaviour by targeting
and addressing anti-social thinking patterns, lack of insight
into violent behaviour and violent fantasy. It also targets poor
management of increased arousal or anger and cognitive skills.
It is aimed at adult men aged between 24 and 50. They will be
high-risk offenders convicted of at least two violent offences.
The programme is approximately 160 sessions of group work lasting
one hour 15 minutes and every two weeks an offender will have
an individual session. The programme takes approximately one year
to complete but is dependent on individual progress.
Cognitive Skills Booster Programme
5. This programme is designed to reinforce
learning from general offending programmes through skills rehearsal
and relapse prevention. It is targeted at both male and female
offenders who have already completed a general offending programme.
The programme consists of 10 2 to 2.5 hour sessions if delivered
as a group session or may be slightly shorter if undertaken on
a one to one basis. A programme lasts between three and 10 weeks
(20 to 25 hours in total).
Sex Offender Treatment Programmes (SOTP)
Core programme
6. The treatment goals of this programme
include helping offenders develop understanding of how and why
sexual offences were committed to increase awareness of victim
harm issues, and to develop meaningful life goals as part of a
relapsed prevention plan. The programme is targeted at male medium-
and high-risk sex offenders, and challenges thinking patterns,
develops victim empathy and relapse prevention skills. The programme
consists of 86 2 to 2.5 hour group sessions and lasts approximately
five months (at four sessions per week).
Extended programme
7. A supplementary programme for high-risk
offenders covering five treatment need areas: dysfunctional thinking
styles; emotion management; offence related sexual fantasy; intimacy
skills and inadequate relapse prevention plans. It is targeted
at male high and very high-risk sex offenders. The programme lasts
for 73 2 to 2.5 hour group sessions and takes approximately four
months (at four sessions per week).
Adapted Programme
8. Treatment goals are similar to the core programme,
but treatment methods are adapted to suit learning-disabled sex
offenders across all risk levels. The programme is designed to
increase sexual knowledge, modify offence-justifying thinking,
develop ability to recognise feelings in themselves and others,
to gain an understanding of victim harm, and develop relapse prevention
skills. The programme consists of 85 2 to 2.5 hour group sessions
and lasts approximately five months (at four sessions per week).
Rolling Programme
9. This programme covers the same topics
as the core programme but with less emphasis on obtaining an adequate
offence account, and more emphasis on relationship skills and
attachment deficits. It is targeted at male low and medium risk
sex offenders, but sex offenders who have completed primary treatment
programmes and who are serving long sentences can attend as a
"top up" programme. The programme lasts for 45 to 60
sessions of 2 to 2.5 hours.
Booster Programme
10. This programme is designed to refresh
clients' memories about their learning in treatment and to provide
additional relapse prevention and release preparation work. It
is targeted at male sex offenders and lasts for 28 sessions of
2 to 2.5 hours over a six week period.
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