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A Forensic Day Treatment Program for Personality-Disordered Criminal OffendersDr. Henri van der Hoeven Kliniek, P.O. Box 174, 3500 AD Utrecht, The Netherlands The first forensic day treatment program in the Netherlands was started in February 1992 with a capacity of 10 clients. In this article, results of an ongoing evaluation study are presented. More than 40% of the clients had committed sexual offenses; the majority of the others had committed nonsexual crimes. 77Te clients exhibit symptoms of various personality disorders with high levels of hostility and general psychopathology. Assessment of treatment results reveals a substantial reduction of pathology, especially in terms of hostility and anxiety. However, a comparison of pretreatment test scores of dropouts with those of clients who have completed the program reveals that forensic day treatment may better suit the group of relatively older (225 years) child molesters with cluster C personality disorders. Younger offenders with cluster B personality disorders who had committed nonsexual crimes are over represented among the dropouts.
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 40, No. 2,
123-134 (1996) This article has been cited by other articles:
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