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- Title
Support for the predictive validity of the multifactor offender readiness model (MORM): forensic patients' readiness and engagement with therapeutic groups.
- Authors
Alemohammad, Mehdi; Wood, Jane L.; Tapp, James; Moore, Estelle; Skelly, Alan
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Treatment non-engagement in forensic health settings has ethical and economic implications. The multifactor offender readiness model (MORM) provides a framework for assessing treatment readiness across person, programme and contexts.<bold>Aims: </bold>To answer the following question: Are the internal factors of the MORM associated with likelihood of engagement in groups by patients in forensic mental health services?<bold>Method: </bold>In a retrospective design, associations were investigated between internal factors of the MORM, measured as part of assessment for group participation, and the outcomes of treatment refusal, treatment dropout and treatment completion.<bold>Results: </bold>One hundred and eighteen male patients in a high security hospital consecutively referred for group treatment agreed to participate. Internal factors of the MORM associated with treatment refusals included: psychopathic cognition, negative self-evaluation/affect and effective goal-seeking strategies. Those associated with dropouts included emotional dysregulation, low competencies to engage and low levels of general distress. MORM factors associated with completion included: low motivation, ineffective goal-seeking strategies, absence of psychopathic cognition, high levels of general distress and competency to engage.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Internal factors of the MORM could be useful contributors to decisions about treatment readiness for hospitalised male offender-patients. Up to one in three programmes offered were refused, so clinical use of the MORM to aid referral decisions could optimise the most constructive use of resources for every individual. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
MEDICAL care of criminals; PREPAREDNESS; PATIENT participation; FORENSIC medicine; PATIENT refusal of treatment
- Publication
Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health, 2017, Vol 27, Issue 5, p421
- ISSN
0957-9664
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/cbm.2008