All prisons should be therapeutic communities

This essay is intended to assess your skills in discussing practice and research in counselling and forensic psychology and to employ appropriate evidence to construct an argument and draw conclusions. For this essay, it is important that you draw on additional material beyond that contained within the textbook; this must consist of at least two articles that you have found through a citation search that you have conducted in It will be difficult to achieve the higher marks if you do not draw on this additional material. Chapter 19 Chapter 19 ‘Contexts’ (pages 283–296 in Mad or Bad: A Critical Approach to Counselling and Forensic Psychology) focuses on the issue of offering psychotherapy in the prison system, so the whole chapter is relevant. The chapter looks at tensions between psychotherapy approaches and security in prison, as well as rehabilitation models (RNR model and Good Lives model). This is good background to consider reasons why most prisons are not run on a therapeutic community model. You are advised to be careful not to include too much background history and description in your essay. The focus should be on critically evaluating the evidence, ideas and research that is directly relevant to the essay question. Command words The command words used in this essay title are ‘critically discuss’. This means that although it is acceptable for you to describe methods of prevention of mental health issues and offending or the research on therapeutic communities and suicide, it is important that you critically evaluate them as well. Your essay should be dedicated to building a reasoned argument regarding the research, theories and practice (including ethical considerations) that is supported by appropriate, referenced evidence in a way that provides an answer to the question you select. Although you may decide to draw a conclusion on one side of the question or the other it is important that you consider the relative merits and limitations of the opposite point of view.

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