Developing specific involvement strategies within a psychologically informed planned environment: a service evaluation

Date27 June 2019
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1108/JMHTEP-10-2018-0058
Pages264-276
Published date27 June 2019
AuthorKarine Greenacre,Rebecca Paez
Subject MatterHealth & social care,Mental health,Mental health education
Developing specific involvement strategies
within a psychologically informed planned
environment: a service evaluation
Karine Greenacre and Rebecca Paez
Abstract
Purpose The purpose of this paperis to apply current understanding of service user involvement (SUI) to
forensicpractice with referenceto the benefits anddrawbacks. Specifically,it discusses modelsof SUI and their
application toa psychologically informed planned environment (PIPE) locatedin a Category C male prison.
Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon residentsexperiences, the evaluation reflects on the
contribution of cultural,environmentaland politicalfactors to the successor failure of SUI withinthe PIPE service.
Findings The evaluation will review current systems and explore ways of improving and strengthening
strategies by referring to the whole systems approachto SUI (Wright, 2006).
Originality/value The evaluation makes recommendations for local and national SUI within PIPE services.
Keywords Forensic, Service user involvement, Psychologically informed planned environment (PIPE)
Paper type Viewpoint
In 2010, the Department of Health and the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), in
consultation with a team of clinicians, jointly developed a new initiative known as Psychologically
Informed Planned Environments (PIPEs). The PIPE model is a relatively new initiative that forms
part of the Governments Offender Personality Disorder Strategy. Joseph and Benefield (2012)
describe the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway in detail. To summarise, the pathway
aims to improve public protection and psychological health by:
1. improved and earlier, post-sentence identification, assessment and case formulation of
offenders with severe personality disorders;
2. improved risk assessment, sentence planning and case management when offenders are in
the community;
3. offering new intervention and treatment services co-commissioned by the NHS and the
NOMS in secure category B, and category C prisons and community environments;
4. improvements to the high-security prison treatment units and the democratic therapeutic
community services in prisons;
5. new progression environments in prisons and approved premises, where offenders can be
provided with post-treatment support, monitored and tested in secure and community
settings, supporting their move towards safer management in the community; and
6. workforce development, equipping staff across the offender pathway with the right skills and
attitudes to work with this group of high-risk offenders.
PIPEs are specifically designed, contained environments where staff members have additional
training to develop an increased psychological understanding of their work(Bolger and Turner,
2013, p. 6). The PIPE model holds a number of theoretical concepts at its core. It assumes a
biopsychosocial understanding of therelationship between the environment, the individualswithin
it, and between the individuals themselves. Specifically, how these relationships can support risk
Received 15 October 2018
Revised 23 December 2018
Accepted 29 April 2019
Karine Greenacre and
Rebecca Paez are both based
at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS
Foundation Trust,
Norwich, UK.
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VOL. 14 NO. 4 2019, pp.264-276, © Emerald Publishing Limited, ISSN 1755-6228 DOI 10.1108/JMHTEP-10-2018-0058

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