This study tested Expand Your Horizon, a programme designed to improve body image by training women to focus on the functionality of their body using structured writing assignments. Eighty-one women (Mage=22.77) with a negative body image were randomised to the Expand Your Horizon programme or to an active control programme. Appearance satisfaction, functionality satisfaction, body appreciation, and self-objectification were measured at pretest, posttest, and one-week follow-up. Following the intervention, participants in the Expand Your Horizon programme experienced greater appearance satisfaction, functionality satisfaction, and body appreciation, and lower levels of self-objectification, compared to participants in the control programme. Partial eta-squared effect sizes were of small to medium magnitude. This study is the first to show that focusing on body functionality can improve body image and reduce self-objectification in women with a negative body image. These findings provide support for addressing body functionality in programmes designed to improve body image.

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According to Dutch Law, patients committing severe crimes justifying imprisonment of four years or more who cannot be held (fully) accountable for these acts can be sentenced to compulsory hospitalization in a specialized TBS hospital in the Netherlands. In the current paper, the effects of TBS treatment will be addressed in terms of recidivism numbers after termination of TBS treatment, as well as in behavioral changes that are observed during admission to TBS hospitals. Although these results offer some indirect support suggesting that TBS is effective, no randomized controlled trials had been conducted up until now thatThe authors would like to express their appreciation to the management, staff, therapists, and patients at the seven forensic hospitals that are participating in this research: de Rooyse Wissel (Venray and Maastricht), van der Hoeven (Utrecht), Oostvaarders (Almere), Mesdag (Groningen), Veldzicht (Balkbrug), Assen (Assen), and Kijvelanden (Portugaal). This project is supported financially by the Netherlands Ministry of Justice, the Expertise Center for Forensic Psychiatry, Maastricht University's Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, and the participating forensic hospitals. We gratefully acknowledge their support. We thank present and former project coodinators, Lieke Bouts and Annette Löbbes, database manager,

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