Psychology in Probation Services (Forensic Practice series)

✍ Scribed by David Crighton, Graham Towl

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book serves as a route map for psychologists and probation officers working in probation services. Outlines the strategic framework for psychological services across prisons and probation. Gives an up-to-date picture of some key emerging areas of applied psychological practice in probation settings. Covers the development of applied psychological services, court work, mental health, working with sex offenders, risk assessment, group work, cognitive skills, multi-agency public protection panels, and lifer assessments. The editors are Deputy Head and Head of Psychology for Prisons and Probation Services, and therefore well placed to compile this book. Complements Graham Towl’s book Psychology in Prisons (BPS Blackwell, 2003).

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 7
Foreword by Herschel Prins......Page 9
Editors’ Preface......Page 12
Series Editors’ Preface......Page 14
Revolving Doors......Page 16
List of Contributors......Page 17
Acknowledgements......Page 18
1 Applied Psychological Services in the National Probation Service for England and Wales......Page 19
2 Work in the Courts......Page 32
3 Counselling Psychologists and Mental Health Work in Probation Services......Page 41
4 Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders......Page 58
5 Risk Assessment......Page 70
6 Suicide and Intentional Self-Injury......Page 85
7 Groupwork-based Interventions......Page 100
8 Cognitive Skills Groupwork......Page 109
9 Multi-agency Public Protection Arrangements......Page 122
10 Domestic Violence Work with Male Offenders......Page 133
11 Work with Life Sentence Offenders......Page 156
12 Partnership Working: Organizational Roles, Structures and Interfaces......Page 174
References......Page 188
Index......Page 204