The Short Motivational Programme (SMP) is a motivational, one-on-one programme. It is designed to enhance offenders’ motivation to understand their offending and assist them to learn how to make positive changes in their attitudes and behaviour.
The SMP may be delivered in prisons or in the community.
The programme is aimed at male and female offenders who are not motivated to address their rehabilitation needs.
The SMP is delivered over five sessions by a programme facilitator or psychologist to individual participants. Sessions are intensive for one hour, one day a week for five weeks.
SMP assists offenders’ motivation to address their rehabilitation needs by working through a structured programme.
Session 1 – Rehabilitation needs identification – to understand their offending behaviour.
Session 2 – Assessment session – identifies problems and draws an offence chain.
Session 3 – Compares costs and benefits of offending behaviour – to raise motivation to change.
Session 4 – Looks at how to deal with barriers to positive change.
Session 5 – Assesses motivation and, if satisfactory, creates a Change Plan.
In the community
If an offender is eligible for the programme, the probation officer waitlists the offender in IOMS and forwards the completed referral form to the programme liaison manager (PLM) for CPPS Head Office approval. Once approved, the probation officer places the offender on the tentative list for the programme in IOMS
In prisons
If a prisoner is sentence planned for the programme and is eligible, the prison scheduler places the prisoner on the waitlist for the programme in IOMS.