Secure Recovery is the first text to tackle the challenge of recovery-oriented
mental health care in forensic services and prison-based therapeutic communities
in the UK.
Recovery as an emergent paradigm in the field of mental health presents a
challenge to all services to embrace a new clinical philosophy, but nowhere are
the implications more profound than in services that are designed to meet the
needs of mentally disordered and personality-disordered offenders, both men and
women. The chapters collected together in this book represent a cross-section of
experiences in high, medium and low secure services and prison-based therapeutic
communities in England and Scotland that have begun to implement