205 Summary moral craftsmanship of prison staff. Based on some relatively low scores, we recommend focusing on further developing the dialogic skills of prison staff. Our results can be used as an incentive to further facilitate ethics support, such as the MCD sessions, for all prison staff. This can foster a moral learning process among prison staff and will stimulate and help them to further develop their moral craftsmanship. With respect to future research of MCD we recommend the further development of research instruments to measure the associated impact, e.g., by validating the current version of the MCS-Questionnaire. Furthermore, future research should also improve the measurement of the impact of MCD on concrete working practices. For example, by using ‘participatory action research designs’, with the aim to work together with all stakeholders to create direct impact on practices. Overall conclusion This thesis describes howMCD can be a valuable instrument to facilitate moral reflections of prison staff and thereby foster their moral craftsmanship and a moral learning process. Prison staff experienced a variety of moral dilemmas. Prison staff positively evaluated the MCD sessions which supported them in dealing with those dilemmas. MCD fostered indepth reflections and improved the understanding of other perspectives in complex moral situations. MCD provided staff withmore understanding of each other’s responsibilities and limitations related to the different roles that prison staff have in the organization. This study contributed to the exploration of how to measure the impact of the ethics support and MCD, and reflected upon what methodologies and research designs can be helpful in this respect. The current results led to our recommendation for a continuation of MCD sessions as a specific kind of ethics support for prison staff. With the described training program and the accompanying research, DCIA took the first positive steps toward facilitating the development of the moral craftsmanship of Dutch prison staff. At the same time, this research led to recommendations for further improvements to better reach the potential of MCD at DCIA for the near future. Continuous monitoring and evaluation of MCD – with attention for the organizational contexts and the needs of all involved – can foster the further professionalization of this type of ethics support in the prison context. Working in prisons can be tough and challenging from time to time. It is valuable to provide prison staff with ongoing support in the morally complex situations they regularly encounter. The development of prison staff’s MCS consist of an ongoing learning process, which can be fostered by the implementation of MCD. Attention to MCS, and ideally the use of MCD, can best be integrated and embedded in the daily work practices in prisons.
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