The good lives model and conceptual issues in offender rehabilitation

By Tony Ward, Mark Brown. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Sociology and Political Science

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A fundamental attribution error? Rethinking cognitive distortions † (2006, background): “Most notable in this regard is the 'good lives' model developed by Tony Ward and his colleagues (see e.g. Ward & Brown, 2004) that expands the rehabilitative focus from targeting deficits to building strengths.”
Attitudes towards sexual offenders: what do we know, and why are they important? (2017, background): “…of treatment provision (i.e., cognitive-behavioral therapy vs. psychotherapy vs. person-centered approaches, etc.) is argued to be of less importance than the therapeutic alliance between clients and practitioners (Blow, Sprenkle, & Davis, 2007; Duncan, Miller, & Sparks, 2004; Ward & Brown, 2004).”
The Good Lives Model in Practice: Offence Pathways and Case Management (2011, background): “Following an extensive review of psychological, social, biological, and anthropological research, Ward and colleagues (e.g., Ward and Brown 2004; Ward and Marshall 2004) first proposed nine classes of primary goods.”
Protective Factors for Violence Risk in Forensic Psychiatric Patients: A Retrospective Validation Study of the SAPROF (2011, neutral): “Although the concept of including positive factors in treatment is by no means new to forensic psychiatry—see, for instance, the Good Lives Model (Ward & Brown, 2004 ) and the Positive Psychology approach (Seligman, 2002 )—and many protective factors are indeed often part of clinical intervention,”
Dynamic risk and protective factors (2016, background): “As such, by the early 2000s, there was a movement for current practice to be replaced with a more strengths-based approach to offender assessment (Rogers, 2000; Ward & Brown, 2004).”
Changing lives? Desistance research and offender management (2010, methodology): “The GLM represents a relatively recent development in the field (Ward and Brown, 2004; Ward and Marshall, 2004; Ward and Gannon, 2006; Ward, Gannon and Mann, 2007).”
‘I am the person now I was always meant to be’: Identity reconstruction and narrative reframing in therapeutic community prisons (2012, background): “This capability-building emphasis, as advocates of a good lives model of offender rehabilitation (Ward and Brown, 2004; Ward and Maruna, 2007), strengthsbased resettlement (Burnett and Maruna, 2006; Maruna and LeBel, 2002; Uggen et al.”
Reconstructing the Risk-Need-Responsivity model: A theoretical elaboration and evaluation (2007, neutral): “…tends to center on offender risk profiles (or traits) and downplays the relevance of contextual or ecological factors in offender rehabilitation (Ward & Brown, 2004); (f) the RNR is often translated in practice into “one‐size‐fits‐all” manner that fails to take critical individual needs and…”
Incorporating trauma-informed care into evidence-based sex offender treatment (2014, background): “Also gaining currency are Good Lives Models (Ward & Brown, 2004; Ward, Yates, & Willis, 2012; Willis, Ward, & Levenson, 2013; Willis, Yates, Gannon, & Ward, 2013; Yates, Prescott, & Ward, 2010) that strive to help clients attain self-actualisation goals while at the same time improving affective…”
The Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) Model (2011, neutral): “…of human nature” (Ward & Marshall, 2007, p. 283), “downplays the relevance of contextual or ecological factors” (Ward, Melser, et al., 2007, p. 210), favors “one size fits all” (Ward & Brown, 2004, p. 245; Ward & Maruna, 2007, p. 23), and is too theoretical and not theoretical enough (see chap.”
Evaluating the Predictive Validity of the Compas Risk and Needs Assessment System (2009, neutral): “The strength-based or good lives approach (Andrews et al., 2006; Ward & Brown, 2004) is a natural extension of the shift toward more comprehensive assessment.”
Sex offenders, internet child abuse images and emotional avoidance: The importance of values. (2006, background): “Ward and Brown (2004) have argued that this places an emphasis on negative, or avoidant treatment goals and suggested that, bThe focus is on the reduction of maladaptive behaviors, the elimination of distorted beliefs, the removal of problematic desires, and the modification of offense supportive…”
Collateral consequences of sex offender residence restrictions (2008, background): “facilitate support systems (English, Pullen, & Jones, 1998; Ward & Brown, 2004 ).”
Offender emotion and self-regulation: implications for offender rehabilitation programming (2009, background): “…Model (GLM) (Ward & Maruna, 2007) is a theory of crime that conceptualises offending in terms of basic human needs (referred to as primary human goods) and suggests that the likelihood of offending behaviour occurring will depend on the extent to which these needs are met (Ward & Brown, 2004).”
The Recent Past and Near Future of Risk and/or Need Assessment (2006, background): “Tony Ward and colleagues (Ward & Brown, 2004; Ward & Stewart, 2003) more generally noted that RNR is too negative (reducing too much to risk and need), does not recognize strengths, and is not devoted to enhancing human potential and achievement.”
The Role of Transformation Narratives in Desistance Among Released Lifers (2014, background): “…programs for ex-offenders are typically deficit-based and aim to eradicate or reduce the various problems associated with criminal behavior (Ward & Brown, 2004); here, the story is that ex-offenders are people with multiple deficits, ranging from drug and alcohol use, poor educational…”