ABSTRACT
The healthy identity interventions provide a systematic, evidence-based framework through which psychological and social issues associated with extremist offending can be addressed. Whilst this intervention is focused on broadly psychological and social issues, it has also been found to support, contextualize and reinforce intervention work specifically focused on addressing those who use Islamic scripture to justify offending for their cause. The relationship between religiously informed interventions and those which are psychologically informed is an interesting one worthy of continued analysis. The association of identity issues with extremist offending and with disengagement and desistance and effective intervention approaches provides a central concept around which interventions can address those psycho-social issues which can contribute to such offending. This knowledge and understanding may in time also have value in informing operational policies and organizational activities that help to support individual disengagement or may help with broader initiatives to counter-terrorism.
