Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders: An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Forensic Mental Health Nursing (Forensic Focus Book 30)

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 Sexual Offending and Mental Health draws together theoretical, clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals working in the community and inpatient settings with sex offenders and those who have behaved in sexually inappropriate ways.

The contributors describe current influential models of sexual offending and the developmental, psychological and social factors involved. They discuss the prevalence of personality and mental disorders in known sex offenders and the impact these disorders have on their treatment and management. They describe clinical work with individuals, their partners and families, and also consider the impact of this work on professionals. The book includes an outline of current approaches to risk assessment, an overview of the recent changes in legislation in England and Wales, and suggestions for multi-disciplinary management in the community with regards to prevention as well as treatment.

This book is essential reading for professionals working in health or criminal justice settings with people who have committed sexual offences or whose sexual behaviour has caused concern for others.

Sexual Offending and Mental Health draws together theoretical, clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals working in the community and in-patient settings with sex offenders and those who have behaved in sexually inappropriate ways.The contributors describe current influential models of sexual offending and the developmental, psychological and social factors involved. They discuss the prevalence of personality and mental disorders in known sex offenders and the impact these disorders have on their treatment and management. They describe clinical work with individuals, their partners and families, and also consider the impact of this work on professionals. The book includes an outline of current approaches to risk assessment, an overview of the recent changes in legislation in England and Wales, and suggestions for multi-disciplinary management in the community.This book will be essential reading for professionals working in health or criminal justice settings with people who have committed sexual offences or whose sexual behaviour has caused concern for others. Part I: Theoretical perspectives An overview of sexual offending / Julia Houston Risk assessment / Jackie Craissati Mental disorder and sexual offending / Andrew M. Aboud Sexual offending : ethnicity, culture and diversity issues in assessment and management / Olumyiwa John Olumoroti The law and sex offending / Sarah Galloway and Sandra MacPhail Part II: Clinical practice issues A sex offender service within a mental health setting / Julia Houston and Malcolm Scoales Clinical assessment and formulation / Tim Green Treatment, relapse prevention, and building good live / Tim Green The impact of personality disorder on working with sexual offenders / Sharon Prince Multi-agency/disciplinary working with sexual offenders / Sarah Galloway and Adina Seupersad The non-abusing parent and their role in risk management / Sarah Galloway and Natalie Hogg Systematic interventions with sexual offending / Alison Beck The impact on professionals of working with sex offenders / Sharon K.C. Leicht. This book draws together theoretical, clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals working in the community and in-patient settings with sex offenders and those who have behaved in sexually inappropriate ways. The contributors describe current influential models of sexual offending and the developmental, psychological and social factors involved. They discuss the prevalence of personality and mental disorders in known sex offenders and the impact these disorders have on their treatment and management. They describe clinical work with individuals, their partners and families, and also consider the impact of this work on professionals. The book includes an outline of current approaches to risk assessment, an overview of the recent changes in legislation in England and Wales, and suggestions for multi-disciplinary management in the community "Sexual Offending and Mental Health draws together theoretical, clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals working in the community and impatient settings with sex offenders and those who have behaved in sexually inappropriate ways. This book is essential reading for professionals working in health or criminal justice settings with people who have committed sexual offences or whose sexual behaviour has caused concern for others."--BOOK JACKET For those working in prolonged clinical contact with offenders, the nurse-patient relationship can be 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