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Community sentence with Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR); an exploration into offenders’ experience of psychological therapy
Purpose
This study aims to explore service users’ experience of psychological therapy as part of a community sentence with a Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) in Birmingham Courts between January and December 2018.
Design/methodology/approach
All service users that had therapy in this period were telephoned a month after ending and offered a semi-structured telephone interview. Seven service users agreed to be recorded. This data was then transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis to gain a richer understanding of their lived experience.
Findings
Themes identified were: Is the MHTR for me? Opening up, enlightening connections and personal change. Service users initially questioned the relevance and burden of the order for them; the experience of therapy allowed them to trust and talk about things unsaid in the past; this helped them to review and reconsider their understanding of themselves and their life choices and what further support they might need.
Research limitations/implications
Interviews were not completed by an independent interviewer. Experience of working with offender manager supervision additionally available throughout the sentence was not explored.
Practical implications
What is included in the MHTR information and support needs to be informed by the service user’s perspective, including this can improve engagement.
Social implications
Therapy was seen as a “a cog in the machine” and wider social inequalities may need to be addressed within the sentence.
Originality/value
This report focusses on experience of a therapeutic intervention – a key part of a community sentence with an MHTR.