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


OBJECTIVE
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.


METHODS
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.


CONCLUSIONS
Empirical research is needed in order to find out whether the treatment as a whole produces better results than the two treatments administered separately.
Hornsveld
R H J
RH
r.hornsveld@tiscali.nl
Soe-Agnie
S
S
Donker
J
J
van der Wal
L
L
D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D003417:Criminal Psychology / Q000379:methods*; D007174:Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011329:Prisoners; D011594:Psychometrics; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology