The Effect of Reading Interventions among Poor Readers at a Forensic Psychiatric Clinic
Journal article, 2017

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of a short period, 15 sessions, of reading interventions in a sample of adult forensic psychiatric patients: 61 patients with decoding difficulties - 44 in the experimental group and 17 in the comparison group - with an average age of 31.6 participated. Of these, 36% were female, and 29% had an immigrant background. The participants carried out a battery of reading tests. The results in the experimental group showed a medium effect size (d = .36 to .76) on all reading tests between pre- and post-test. The comparison group, however, showed no gain at all between the test occasions. The results indicate that a proportionally low reading intervention effort produces improvement in reading. This study discusses the importance of including reading assessment and offering remediation in order to reach optimal future social adjustment for patients in forensic clinics.

psychiatry

interventions

education remediation

forensic patients

psychology

reading disabilities

Author

I. Svensson

Linnaeus University, Växjö

L. Falth

Linnaeus University, Växjö

B. Persson

Linnaeus University, Växjö

Staffan Nilsson

Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Applied Mathematics and Statistics

University of Gothenburg

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

1321-8719 (ISSN) 19341687 (eISSN)

Vol. 24 3 440-457

Subject Categories

Mathematics

DOI

10.1080/13218719.2016.1247642

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Created

10/8/2017