Transforming Rehabilitation

We are proud to work with London Community Rehabilitation Company to provide Psychological assessment and therapy. The interventions are specifically designed for offenders post sentence and aim to address mental health issues and offending behaviour.

Our highly specialised team of Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists provide one to one psychological therapy in probation offices across London for those on community orders or probation and is proving to be one of the most effective approaches in reducing recidivism rates within this population.

A well utilised and successful service, we are confident that this service will expand given that mental health affects 60% of people in the criminal justice system. 

Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) service

It is widely known that there is a higher prevalence of mental health problems among offenders than in the general public.

Research suggests that within our national probation service 39% of offenders are likely to have a mental illness and those with serious conditions are twice as likely to fail in community supervision.

Given these facts, mental ill health in the probation caseload is, for the most part, currently unrecognised and untreated.

In April 2014 St Andrew’s Healthcare, in partnership with Thames Valley Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) and the social charity People Potential Possibilities (P3), created the first model to deliver a therapeutic response at the point of sentencing for offenders with mental health problems within Milton Keynes Magistrates Court.

Set up as a national pilot scheme, the approach offers rapid diversion for offenders, following a MHTR community order, into effective treatments to address re-offending, mental health and social care issues.

Offenders referred into the service as part of an MHTR order present with a variety of mental health issues, such as depression, anger, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, self-esteem and confidence issues.

Our psychologists deliver bespoke psychological Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) interventions to relieve psychological distress and reduce re-offending.