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Beyond Recovery - Teaching Health vs Treating Illness 2015-16
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Research Paper

Teaching Health vs. Treating Illness: The Efficacy of Three Principles Correctional Counseling with Inmates in an English Prison

Summary:

  • Research conducted by Beyond Recovery in 2015 & 2016.
  • Results taken from HMP Onley academic research project control and treatment groups – average difference before and after intervention
  • In all cases, the treatment group experienced much greater impact
  • Participants in the intervention experienced more than five times greater feelings of wellbeing than the control group
  • The course participants’ purpose in life scores increased more than two and a half times as much as those in the control group
  • Reductions in levels of depression, anger and anxiety were ten times greater in the treatment group
  • There were 63 men in the control group and 91 men in the treatment group