Using the Power Threat Meaning Framework to Structure Forensic Reports

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Programme

The day will run from 9.30 - 4.30 pm, and will consist of a mixture of introduction to the principles of the PTMF and group discussion and exercises.

Dr Lucy Johnstone and Dr Jo Ramsden will describe the relevance of the Framework in forensic settings, and show how it can be used to structure reports that make clearer links between power influences and the resulting responses and behaviour. There will be an opportunity to try out these ideas in relation to a clinical example.

Speakers

Dr Lucy Johnstone is a consultant clinical psychologist, author of 'Users and abusers of psychiatry' (3rd edition Routledge 2021) and 'A straight-talking guide to psychiatric diagnosis' (PCCS Books, 2nd edition 2022); co-editor of 'Formulation in psychology and psychotherapy: making sense of people's problems' (Routledge, 2nd edition 2013); and co-author of 'A straight talking introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework', 2020, PCCS Books) along with a number of other chapters and articles taking a critical perspective on mental health theory and practice. She is the former Programme Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate in the UK and has worked in Adult Mental Health settings for many years, most recently in a service in South Wales. She is Visiting Professor at London South Bank University.

Lucy was lead author, along with Professor Mary Boyle, for the 'Power Threat Meaning Framework' (2018), a British Psychological Society publication co-produced with service users, which outlines a conceptual alternative to psychiatric diagnosis.

Jo Ramsden is a consultant clinical psychologist working in the NHS. She is the clinical lead for the cluster of services in Yorkshire/Humberside commissioned to work with people who have received or who could potentially attract the diagnosis of 'personality disorder'. Having worked for over 15 years with people whose problems are grounded in early adverse events and trauma, Jo is particularly interested in the organisational conditions which need to be in place to support complex relational work.

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