What is it about?
This pilot study examined the benefits and outcomes of a brief, motivational group programme for prisoner with a substance use history.
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Why is it important?
This study provided evidence for the use of such programmes in helping prisoners move beyond ambivalence and to change problem behaviours.
Perspectives
I have been involved in the development and delivery of this programme and find that as a model for changing problem behaviour it 'fits well' with the prisoner population. Also, I find that a peer group setting is a very powerful mechanism for moving people towards behaviour change
Mr Stephen P Harper
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This page is a summary of: An evaluation of a group-based motivational intervention for substance misusers in an Irish forensic setting, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, March 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/ipm.2015.7.
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