Professionals’ Attitudes Towards the Importance of Core Principles for the Mental Health Treatment of Offenders in Correctional Facilities

AuthorLeonel C. Gonçalves,Elmar Habermeyer,Astrid Rosseger,Jérôme Endrass,Bernd Borchard,Thomas Noll
Date01 November 2020
DOI10.1177/0032885520956371
Published date01 November 2020
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The Prison Journal
2020, Vol. 100(5) 603 –616
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Article
Professionals’ Attitudes
Towards the Importance
of Core Principles for
the Mental Health
Treatment of Offenders
in Correctional Facilities
Thomas Noll1, Bernd Borchard1,
Astrid Rosseger1, Jérôme Endrass1,
Elmar Habermeyer2,
and Leonel C. Gonçalves1
Abstract
The efficacy of offender therapy depends on professionals’ sharing common
attitudes regarding basic principles of offender treatment. Research in this
area is lacking. This study explored attitudes of 264 professionals involved
in or collaborating with the largest correctional system in Switzerland. The
very encouraging findings are that the core ideas and general principles
have been assimilated due to the long-lasting collaboration between
professionals and institutions, as well as the alignment of standardized
methods of intervention.
Keywords
offender therapy, attitudes, beliefs, behavior, efficacy of treatment
1Office of Corrections, Canton of Zurich, Hohlstrasse, Switzerland
2Forensic Clinic of the Psychiatric University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
Corresponding Author:
Thomas Noll, Office of Corrections, Canton of Zurich, Hohlstrasse 552, Zurich, 8090,
Switzerland.
Email: thomas.noll@ji.zh.ch
956371TPJXXX10.1177/0032885520956371The Prison JournalNoll et al.
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