Rachel Pollard and Steve Potter explore the contribution which Cognitive Analytic Therapy, a time-limited method of intervention combining pschoanalytic and cognitive behavioural approaches, can make to probation practice with 'difficult to help' offenders, arguing that it provides a flexible and effective addition to the range of interventions currently used.
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