Treating High-Risk Offenders with Personality Disorder
What Can Work When Prison Doesn’t
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Treating High-Risk Offenders with Personality Disorder
What Can Work When Prison Doesn’t
About this book
Individuals who have personality disorder and commit serious, violent offences present a particular challenge in terms of rehabilitation and risk management. Drawing from the experiences of those working within the Millfields Unit specialist service for high-risk male offenders with personality disorder, this book provides readers working in forensic personality disorder services, whether in hospital or in prison, with a primer on the theory underpinning a successful treatment model and demonstrates how to put it into practice.
Written by staff in dialogue with their patients, the innovative approach explored within this book brings together psychodynamic thinking and offending behaviour theory to create a more holistic way of addressing the suffering caused, both to themselves and others, by these complex individuals. Chapters explore:
- the rationale and theoretical underpinnings of the psychodynamically informed therapeutic community approach
- the process of selecting, assessing and admitting a patient
- how to form a therapeutic alliance in the face of challenging presentations
- the potentially volatile process of change
- the importance of transitions and aftercare
- staff selection and training at beginner and higher levels
- working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
An essential read for forensic mental health clinicians and allied health professionals, this book will be instrumental for those already dedicated to working with this target population. It will challenge certain stigmas by demonstrating that an informed treatment approach carries with it a good chance of successful rehabilitation and can also be highly rewarding.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 The origin and nature of the patient's difficulties
- 2 Personality disorder and serious offending
- 3 Rationale and theoretical underpinnings of the adapted therapeutic community approach
- 4 Community meetings
- 5 Small groups
- 6 How do you spell forgiveness? Finding a shared language of expression through art psychotherapy
- 7 Offence focussed work
- 8 Substance use
- 9 Individual work and how it is managed within a Therapeutic Community
- 10 Pavilion, unstructured spaces, and the role of nurses and social therapists
- 11 Occupational therapy, education, work and community leave
- 12 Assessment and selection for treatment
- 13 Assessing personality and risk
- 14 Formulation
- 15 How to form a therapeutic alliance
- 16 The process of change
- 17 The importance of transitions and aftercare
- 18 Staff selection, supervision, training and reflective practice
- 19 The impact of work on individuals, teams and organisations
- 20 Complex but common pitfalls
- Index