Developing an Intervention to Improve Occupational Participation for Justice-Involved People with a Personality Disorder: Defining and Describing Intervention Components

• DOI: 10.1177/0306624X211013520
• Author: Swaran P. Singh,Catriona Connell,Vivek Furtado,Elizabeth A. McKay
• Published date: 01 May 2022
• Date: 01 May 2022
• Subject Matter: Articles

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International Journal of

Offender Therapy and

Comparative Criminology

2022, Vol. 66(6-7) 774 –788

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Article

Developing an Intervention

to Improve Occupational

Participation for

Justice-Involved People with

a Personality Disorder:

Defining and Describing

Intervention Components

Catriona Connell1,2,3 , Vivek Furtado1,2,

Elizabeth A. McKay3, and Swaran P. Singh1,4

Abstract

Occupational participation is undertaking personally meaningful and socially valued

activities and roles. It is an important outcome for health and justice interventions,

as it is integral to health and desistance. We report the third of a four-stage research

project to develop an intervention to improve occupational participation for justice-

involved people with a personality disorder in the community. We completed a

Delphi survey to produce expert consensus on intervention components and their

content, ascertain participant ratings of 28 factors for their level of influence on

occupational participation, and the modifiability of the factors with this population.

Thirty multi-disciplinary participants completed three survey rounds. Most factors

were rated very influential, but few were considered easily modifiable. Participants

agreed 121 statements describing intervention components and content. Twenty-

seven statements did not reach consensus. In targeting specific factors in intervention,

practitioners must balance their degree of influence with potential modifiability. The

results will inform intervention manualization and modeling.

1University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

2Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK

3Edinburgh Napier University, UK

4Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, UK

Corresponding Author:

Catriona Connell, School of Health and Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University, 9 Sighthill Court,

Edinburgh EH11 4BN, UK.

Email: c.connell@napier.ac.uk

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