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[The development of a treatment program for violent forensic psychiatric patients with a cluster B personality

R H J Hornsveld¹, S Soe-Agnie, J Donker

¹r.hornsveld@tiscali.nl

Tijdschrift Voor Psychiatrie

|November 11, 2008

Abstract

Background:

Very few articles have been published in professional journals concerning the design, content, and results of treatment programs for violent forensic psychiatric patients in the Netherlands.

Aim:

To describe the development of a treatment program for forensic psychiatric patients with a cluster B personality disorder. In this program a treatment for aggression was combined with a treatment for substance abuse.

Method:

Clinical findings obtained with both treatments are discussed, followed by a description of new modules that were added because of recent research results. results The combined treatment program targets the principal dynamic factors that cause individuals to display criminal behaviour.

Conclusion:

Empirical research is needed in order to find out whether the treatment as a whole produces better results than the two treatments administered separately.

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