Forensic Issues - Back Copies

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Issues in Forensic Psychology No. 7

Readiness for Treatment
Edited by Elizabeth Sullivan & Richard Shuker

Featured Articles

• Foreward (Helen Edwards)
• Editor's Comment
  Section One: Theory and Discussion
• Ready or not, they are coming: Dangerous and Severe personality disorder and treatment engagement (Kevin Howells & Allison Tennant)
• Treatment readiness: An overview of Australasian work (Andrew Day, Kevin Howells, Sharon Casey, Tony Ward & Astrid Birgden)
• Hunting the snark: The concept of motivation (Simon Draycott)
  Motivation or motive. Does it really matter what we think of our patients? (David Jones)
  Section Two: Practical Applications
• Using case formulation for assessing and intervening with engagement difficulties (Lawrence Jones)
• Orientating patients to therapy (John Shine)
• Beyond the 'Quick Fix': The role of medication in readiness for psychological treatment of severe personality disorder (Julia Cartwright & Harvey Gordon)
• 'Considering Change' - a motivational intervention with DSPD offenders (Catherine Farr & Simon Draycott)
  Section Three: Research
• Development of a clinical rating scale for offender readiness: Implications for assessment and offender change (Ralph C. Serin, Donna L.Mailloux & Sharon M.Kennedy)
• The personal Concerns Inventory: Offended Adaptation (PCI:OA): The structure of offenders' motivation (Mary McMurra, Joselyn Sellen & Eleni Theodosi)
• Risk and Treatment readiness: The impact of historical and psychosocial variables on treatment completion. (Richard Shuker, Louise Falshaw & Margaret Newton)
• Self and social function: Art Therapy and readiness for treatment in a therapeutic community prison (Bill Wylie)

Issues in Forensic Psychology No. 6

Division of Forensic Psychology Conference 2006:
Invited Symposiums
Edited by Louise Falshaw & Laura Rayment

Featured Articles:

• Symposium 1:Contemporary issues in the work of forensic clinical psychologists
  Chair's introduction (John L. Taylor)
• The real meaning of the Mental Health Ammendment Bill for psychological practice (Bruce Gillmer)
• Developments in the treatment and management of offenders with intellectual disabilities (John L. Taylor, & William R. Lindsay)
• Risk assessment in forensic practice (Margaret M. O'Rourke & Sean M. Hammond)
• Working with personality disordered offenders: Where are we at and where do we need to go? (Jason Davies)
• Symposium 2: Applications of psychology to policing - Police science, policing psychology or setting within forensic psychology? Positioning police research by psychologists
  Chair's introduction (Jennifer Brown)
• Using police data for empirical investigations of rape (Miranda A.H. Horvath & Jennifer Brown)
• Tackling ecological validity: Conducting observations in a police-suspect interview (Lyndsay Gonza)
• The study of decision making in police related research (Margaret A. Wilson)
• Symposium 3: Assessment of a deviant sexual interest
  Chairs introduction (Anthony Beech)
• Forensic assessment of deviant sexual interests: The current position (Vanja Flak, Anthony Beech & Dawn Fisher)
• Symposium 4: Forensic mental health
  Chair's introduction (Peter Kinderman)
• Reforms to the Mental Health Act and implications for psychologists (Peter Kinderman)
• A case for psychologists becoming clinical supervisors (David Pilgrim)
• The Mental Health Act, Approved Clinician and Supervised Community Treatment Orders (Bob Diamond)
• Everyday human rights (Sue Ledwith)
• Symposium 5: Domestic violence - Challenges to the current domestic violence paradigm
  Chair's introduction (Nichola Graham-Kevan)
• Johnson's control-based domestic violence typology: Implications for research and treatment (Nichola Graham-Kevan)
• The heterogeneity of family violence and its implications for practice (Louise Dixon & Kevin Browne)
• A cross-cultural perspective on physical aggression between partners (John Archer)

Issues in Forensic Psychology No. 5

Risk Assessment and Management
Edited by: Gary Macpherson & Lawrence Jones

Featured Articles:

• An evidence-based approached to planning services for forensic psychiatric patients. (Marnie E.Rice, Grant T.Harris, Catherine A. Cormier, Carol Lang, Gareth Coleman & Tina Smith Krans)
• Actual risk predictionfor future violence amongst mentally disordered offenders. (Nicole Hickey)
• Predictive validity of the HCR-20 Violence Risk Assessment Scheme within a maximum security special hospital. (Gary J.D. Macpherson & Ian-Mark Kevan)
• New directions in assessing risk for sexual offenders. (Leam A. Craig, Kevin D. Browne, Todd E. Hogue & Ian Stringer)
• Developing a psychometric model for risk assessment. (Sean M. Hammond & Margaret M. O'Rourke)
• Violent patients' warning signs and indications of copig failure as criteria for specific risk management strategies: An introduction to the SAFE project. (Stal Bjorky)
• Risk: Practice and principals in a Forensic Mental Health Service for children and young people. (Graeme Richardson, Ursula Cawthorne & Finlay Graham)
• Using choice as an aid to engagement and risk management with violent psychopathic offenders. (Daryl Harris, Gill Attrill & Jack Bush)
• A Risk-Readiness Model of post-treatment risk management. (Stephen C.P. Wong & Audrey E. Gordon)
• Legal implications of risk assessment. (Kris Gledhill)

Issues in Forensic Psychology No. 4

Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder
Edited by: Dr Alex Lord & Laura Rayment
Published: August 2003

Purpose: To stimulate a debate amongst forensic practitioners, exploring the usefulness and applicability of the DSPD concept with different forensic populations (male, female, younger patients, violent and sexual offenders) and in different contexts (hospital, prison, community) as well as reviewing early findings from its implementation and related staff development issues.

Featured Articles:

• An overview: DSPD programme concepts and progress (Jane Bell and colleagues)
• Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder and its relationship to sexual offending (Prof Derek Perkins and Daz Bishopp)
• Women and Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder: Assessing, treating and managing women at risk (Dr Caroline Logan)
• Personality disordered offenders in a community context: A mental health perspective (Jackie Craissati)
• Clinical Pluralism: A model of practice for D&SPD treatment teams (Dr Mark Morris)
• DSPD? A unit for young male offender patients with complex needs in a high security hospital (Estelle Moore and Michelle Christmas)
• Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder: Integrating education, training, teamwork and supervision (Dr Jason Davies and Allison Tennant)
• Developing and implementing a Postgraduate Certificate Curse for people working in the Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder service (Lawrence Whyte)

Issues in Forensic Psychology No. 3

The Impact of Offending
Edited by: Louise Falshaw
Published: November 2002
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Purpose: To raise awareness among forensic professionals of the psychological impact on victims of crime. This issue will also address the impact on the indirect victims of crime such as police and prison staff.

Featured Articles:

• The psychological impact of offending on a victim of a physical assault: A case of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (Dr. Nick Grey)
• The impact of offending on police officers (Dr. Mark Rallings)
  Minor crimes, trivial incidents: The cumulative impact of offending (Dr. Mandy Shaw & Prof. Ken Pease)
• Unrecogninsed victims: The parents of child and adolescent offenders (Louise Bowers)
• "Nurturing fragile relationships": Early reflections on working with victims on the National Probation Service's Duluth Pathfinder research programme (Jane Lindsay)
• Imprisonment: The impact on children (Kate Philbrick)
• Working therapeutically with sex offenders: The potential impact on the psychological well-being of treatment providers (Jo Clarke)

Issues in Forensic Psychology No. 2

Positive Directions for Women in Secure Environments
Edited by Rebecca Horn and Sam Warner

Issues in Forensic Psychology No. 1

What do Forensic Psychologists Do? A Primer for Practitioners
Edited by Graham Towl and Cynthia McDougal

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