The Forensic Intensive Psychological Treatment Service (FIPTS) Community Team was developed in 2004 in partnership with the Ministry of Justice and Department of Health to treat and manage high risk offenders with severe PD. The FIPTS Community Team sits within a unique care pathway which includes a 15 bedded medium secure unit, a 6 bedded high support hostel, a 4 bedded low support hostel as well as community treatment and support. FIPTS uses the Positive Community Relationships Programme (PCRP), which was developed from Enabling Environment principles, Desistance Theory, and the Transtheoretical Model of Change, to improve psychosocial functioning, community integration and reduce violent reoffending among offenders with PD.

Suitable for:

• Men and women over 18 who are at medium‐high, high‐risk of high harm, have a forensic history and likely to meet a diagnosis of personality disorder
• There is a link between the individual’s personality traits and offending behaviour
• It is also desirable that individuals demonstrate some motivation to address both their personality difficulties and offending behaviour
• Absence of active major mental illness, learning difficulties (IQ <65) or substance dependence disorders

Offer:

• Intervention levels/intensity
• Community care coordination with residential support
• Community care coordination
• Co‐working with offender managers
• Therapy only
• PCRP Therapies
• Moving Forward Group
• Personality Disorder Awareness Group
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
• Mentalisation Based Therapy
• Violence Reduction Programme
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
• Schema Therapy