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This chapter discusses an approach to working with a particular population who experience difficulties with their relating skills: offenders with intellectual disability (ID) and personality disorder (PD). This chapter provides a brief definition of both ID and PD before providing a brief summary of the link between PD and offending and summarising the relationship between PD and offending in those with ID. A treatment setting that has an explicit focus on the interpersonal difficulties that are a central feature of this particular group of offenders is described and the strategies used to address relating difficulties are reviewed. The chapter is concluded with a case illustration that highlights the value of the Person’s Relating to Others Questionnaire-Version 3 (PROQ3; Birtchnell et al., Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 20, 36–48, 2013) when working with adult offenders with ID.
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Taylor, J. (2016). Using the Person’s Relating to Others Questionnaire (PROQ) to Support Offenders with Intellectual Disability and Personality Disorder. In: Birtchnell, J., Newberry, M., Kalaitzaki, A. (eds) Relating Theory – Clinical and Forensic Applications. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50459-3_22
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