Kougiali, ZG, Fasulo, A, Needs, A and Laar, DV (2019) Broken and mended. In: Strengths-Based Approaches to Crime and Substance Use. Routledge, pp. 195-218.

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Abstract

A considerable amount of literature highlights the importance of membership in recovery-oriented groups (e.g. Best, Bamber, Battersby, Gilman, Groshkova, Honeor & White, 2010; Zywiak, Neighbors, Martin, Johnson, Eaton & Rosenhow, 2009), while identifying the lack of research and understanding of group processes and mechanisms of change in treatment. This chapter aims to capture the mechanisms and processes of recovery and desistance and the experiences, contextual and personal factors that take place during an inprison drug treatment group. We analyse narratives of men with histories of substance use attending an in-prison treatment programme while serving a life sentence and focus on elements that contribute to personal constructions of change and factors that facilitate or hinder recovery within the context of imprisonment.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Divisions:	Psychology (from Sep 2019)
Publisher:	Routledge
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	23 Mar 2023 10:41
Last Modified:	23 Mar 2023 10:41
DOI or ID number:	10.4324/9781315227221-11
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/19158

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