Het lectoraat Werken in Justitieel Kader is in 2008 ontwikkeld en vormgegeven door Anneke Menger, in de eerste jaren in samenwerking met bijzonder lector Jo Hermanns. Vanaf de start heeft het lectoraat een sterke relatie met het werkveld. De drie organisaties die in Nederland verantwoordelijk zijn voor de volwassenenreclassering (Reclassering Nederland, Stichting Verslavingsreclassering GGZ en Leger des Heils Jeugdbescherming & Reclassering) zijn initiatiefnemer en co-financier van het lectoraat. In een latere fase zijn daar de afdeling forensische verslavingszorg van Inforsa Utrecht (voorheen Victas) en Jeugdzorg Nederland bij gekomen. Het lectoraat Werken in Justitieel Kader kent in haar tienjarig bestaan een wisselende samenstelling. Naast een vaste kern van medewerkers zijn verschillende hbo-docenten en professionals uit het werkveld voor één of twee dagen per week aan het lectoraat verbonden geweest.
The road to science for the arts therapies requires research on the full breadths of the spectrum, from systematic case studies to RCTs. It is important that arts therapists and arts therapeutic researchers reflect on the typical characteristics of each research paradigm, research type and research method and select what is appropriate with regard to the particular research question. Questions rather differ. Finding out whether a certain intervention has a particular effect with a large group of clients differs from wanting to know which change occurs at which moment by which interventions in the treatment of an individual client. Research in practice remains close to questions encountered by arts therapists in their daily practice. It concerns questions arts therapists have about their lived experience of acting due to the complexity and variability of practice. By carrying out research in practice that links up with those questions, evidence evolves; evidence that enables the professional to proceed and that makes explicit what often remains implicit and unsaid. What is explicit can be communicated, can be criticised and tested. The professional himself does the road to science of the profession. The investment in professionals’ research in practice is the motor of knowledge-productivity that bridges the theory-practice gap. Research in the arts therapies should lead to ‘knowledge’ in which the ‘art’, nor the ‘subject’ of therapist and client have been lost.
PURPOSE: To test if a collaborative care program (CCP) with nurses in a coordinating position is beneficial for patients with severe personality disorders. DESIGN AND METHODS: A pilot study with a comparative multiple case study design using mixed methods investigating active ingredients and preliminary results. FINDINGS: Most patients, their informal caregivers, and nurses value (parts of) the CCP positively; preliminary results show a significant decrease in severity of borderline symptoms. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: With the CCP,we may expand the supply of available treatments for patients with (severe) personality disorders, but a larger randomized controlled trial is warranted to confirmour preliminary results.
