New adapted treatment programme for offenders

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In the first week of December, Prof Murphy spent 4 days training psychology staff in Wakefield and Wynott prisons, alongside FPLD staff, to deliver a new adapted treatment programme for offenders with learning disabilities.  This work is led by Alison Giraud Saunders from the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities.  Prof Murphy is acting as the clinical psychology consultant for adaptions to the Thinking Skills programme, a cognitive behavioural programme that helps offenders gain self-control, problem-solving and relationship skills.  Up until now the programme had not been available for people with learning difficulties but the Ministry of Justice is keen to put this right, hence the new adapted programme that is being piloted in prisons.