The Implementation of Good Lives Model in Daily Life and Rehabilitation of Offenders

ICPA2023 Presentation by Petra Colpaert, Stijn Vandevelde and Daisy Steen (ICPA2023-PID001)

Authors

Petra Colpaert

Governor, Federal Department of Justice, Belgium

Petra Colpaert graduated at the University of Ghent in Criminology. She worked for 25 years in one of the smallest low security prisons in Belgium. She started as a social worker in the Prison of Ruiselede in 1997, focusing on the rehabilitation of addicted inmates. Since 2010 she works as a governor in the prison with longterm convicted inmates. To lower the recidivism rates, she started the addiction-program B.leave, the training program ‘workout’, a volunteer program ‘Recovery’ and the Re-entry house, a halfway house for inmates without social capital. Since September 2022, she started the first detention House of Belgium in the city of Kortrijk.

Stijn Vandevelde

Professor, Department of Special Needs Education, Ghent University, Belgium

Stijn Vandevelde is an associate professor at the Department of Special Education, University College Ghent, Faculty of Education, Health and Social Work (Bachelor in Special Education) since 2005. His research and research interests include forensic special education; the support of persons with behavior- and emotional disorders; the support of special target groups (e.g. mentally ill offenders (with an intellectual disability); persons with intellectual disabilities and co-occurring behavior problems and/or psychiatric disorders; substance abuse treatment to offenders); Quality of Life (e.g. in forensic settings); rehabilitation of offenders (e.g. underpinned by the Good Lives Model); and theoretical special education.

Daisy Steen

Psychologist, Federal Department of Justice, Belgium

Daisy Steen graduated as a clinical psychologist at the University of Ghent in 2006. After a year in special youth care, she started working as a psychologist in the Bruges Penitentiary Complex, where she worked in the psychosocial service with mainly short-term convicts and defendants. After 15 years, since September 2022, she participated in the start-up of the first detention house in Kortrijk, as coordinator and psychologist in the psychosocial service.

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