Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders : An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Forensic Mental Health Nursing

Working in any area of mental health nursing presents complex issues regarding the nurse-patient relationship. For those working in prolonged clinical contact with offenders, relationships with patients and colleagues can be particularly emotionally intense and sometimes difficult to express. This book attempts to understand and articulate the emotional labour of forensic nursing and explores the challenge of establishing and maintaining therapeutic relationships with offenders.The first book to consider the emotional and relational component of forensic mental health nursing, the chapters cover a number of specialist forensic areas from this psychodynamic perspective, such as women's services, services for people with personality disorders, intensive care, high security psychiatric hospitals, medium secure units and services for adolescent offenders. A chapter on therapeutic communities is also included, along with chapters on challenging relational phenomena such as working with hate and the difficulties of managing difference when working in environments that produce high levels of anxiety." Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders" provides essential information for mental health nurses working in the forensic field and will be of interest to any professionals working with challenging populations and people with personality disorders.This series takes the field of Forensic Psychotherapy as its focal point, offering a forum for the presentation of theoretical and clinical issues. It embraces such influential neighbouring disciplines as language, law, literature, criminology, ethics and philosophy, as well as psychiatry and psychology, its established progenitors. Working in any area of mental health nursing presents complex issues regarding the nurse-patient relationship. For those working in prolonged clinical contact with offenders, relationships with patients and colleagues can be particularly emotionally intense and sometimes difficult to express. This book attempts to understand and articulate the emotional labour of forensic nursing and explores the challenge of establishing and maintaining therapeutic relationships with offenders. The first book to consider the emotional and relational component of forensic mental health nursing, the chapters cover a number of specialist forensic areas from this psychodynamic perspective, such as women's services, services for people with personality disorders, intensive care, high security psychiatric hospitals, medium secure units and services for adolescent offenders. A chapter on therapeutic communities is also included, along with chapters on challenging relational phenomena such as working with hate and the difficulties of managing difference when working in environments that produce high levels of anxiety. Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders provides essential information for mental health nurses working in the forensic field and will be of interest to any professionals working with challenging populations and people with personality disorders. The nurse-patient relationship with offenders : containing the unthinkable to promote recovery / Anne Aiyegbusi Managing hate : the nurse's counter-transference / Malcolm Kay Forensic systems and organizational dynamics / Gillian Tuck The best defence : institutional defenses against anxiety in forensic services / Amanda Lowdell and Gwen Adshead The dynamics of difference / Anne Aiyegbusi -- Paranoid-schizoid functioning within a forensic intensive care ward / Valerie Anne Brown -- Reflecting on murderousness : reflective practice in secure forensic settings / Stephen Mackie -- Containment and the structured day / Sarita Bose -- Nursing dangerousness, dangerous nursing, and the spaces in between : learning to live with uncertainties / Christopher Scanlon and John Adlam -- The "unthought known" : working with men with personality disorder in a high secure setting / Neil Gordon -- The patient, her nurse, and the therapeutic community / Rebecca Neeld and Tom Clarke -- Crying out for care / Suzanne McMillan and Anne Aiyegbusi -- Working with suspicious minds and balancing acts / Katie Downes -- A secure model of nursing care for women / Jenifer Clarke-Moore and Miranda Barber -- Working with one another : service user/professional / Joanne Roberts and Jenifer Clarke-Moore -- Loss and the adolescent offender / Maria McMillan