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The Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway is a national initiative which co-commissions health and probation services to work in partnership to enhance the criminal justice case management of high risk men and women who are identified as having indicators of personality disorder. To support the implementation of the pathway, the Yorkshire and Humberside Personality Disorder Partnership (YHPDP) offers psychologically informed case consultation and case management support. As part of this scheme, contracting has been used in the relationships between psychologists and offender managers in the NPS. This paper offers a definition of contracting before offering a rationale for its use when supporting probation staff who work with offenders with personality disorder. A practical guide is then provided to support offender managers, managers, psychologists or supervisors to implement contracting in their practice supporting staff. Finally, a case study is discussed to illustrate the role and impact of contracting on psychologically-informed risk management.

The Humberside Enhanced Resettlement Service (HERS) was a psychologically informed, supported accommodation service for people on probation whose presentation is consistent with personality disorder. An evaluation, utilising semi-structured interviews, identified four themes of experience for people on probation and their probation practitioners who worked with HERS: (1) relationships; (2) practical support; (3) expectations, and (4) risk. This suggested that providing psychologically led supported accommodation enhances therapeutic relationships between professionals and people on probation, which may assist in reducing reoffending. Conclusions are tentative due to methodological limitations and future research should employ more robust methods to assess the impact of similar psychologically informed supported accommodation projects.