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This chapter presents research which investigated changes in the negative relating styles of offenders in two forensic treatment settings: an NHS medium secure unit (MSU) and a therapeutic community prison. Negative relating was measured using the Person’s Relating to Others Questionnaire (PROQ; Birtchnell and Evans, Personality and Individual Differences, 36, 125–140, 2004; Birtchnell et al., Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 20, 36–48, 2013) at different time points during the course of treatment in the two settings. Both patients and prisoners demonstrated significant linear improvements in relating which was evident relatively early during treatment. Overall, prisoners demonstrated more reductions in negative relating than patients, although both samples showed some interesting patterns in terms of reductions on particular PROQ scales.
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Newberry, M. (2016). Changes in Offenders’ Interpersonal Relating Styles Following Treatment in Forensic Settings. In: Birtchnell, J., Newberry, M., Kalaitzaki, A. (eds) Relating Theory – Clinical and Forensic Applications. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50459-3_23
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