@article{ref1,
title="The relationship between treatment alliance, social climate, and treatment readiness in long-term forensic psychiatric care: an explorative study",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2020",
author="Gaab, S. and Brazil, Inti Angelo and de Vries, M. G. and Bulten, B. H.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="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 <i>treatment readiness. Treatment readiness</i> incorporates internal client-specific factors as well as factors in the therapeutic situation. In the therapeutic situation both <i>social climate</i> and <i>therapeutic alliance</i> 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 <i>treatment readiness, treatment alliance</i>, and &quot;Therapeutic Hold,&quot; which is a subscale of <i>social climate</i>. In a Bayesian linear regression analysis, however, therapeutic hold seemed to be the only strong predictor of internal <i>treatment readiness</i>. 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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="10.1177/0306624X19899609",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X19899609"
}