Global Perspectives on Interventions in Forensic Therapeutic Communities (eBook, ePUB)

A Practitioner's Guide
Redaktion: Akerman, Geraldine; Shuker, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This ground-breaking volume explores the validity and effectiveness of secure settings as therapeutic communities (TCs). Rooted in practice, it examines the transferability of approaches within international TCs to other forensic settings, while considering how the environment contributes to effectiveness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000512328
• Artikelnr.: 63306935

Autorenporträt

Geraldine Akerman is Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist and Principal Psychologist at HMP Grendon and Springhill. She is Chair of the Division of Forensic Psychology. Richard Shuker is Chartered Forensic Psychologist and Head of Clinical Services at HMP Grendon, a therapeutic community prison for long-term prisoners with complex personality needs, where he leads the clinical provision and research programme.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Practice perspectives 1. Changing the game: an intervention
addressing the impact of former gang members on the therapeutic process 2.
A community of women in prison: more than a voice - therapeutic use of
visual and psychodramatic arts 3. Group supervision for prison officers
(POs): an orthopedagogical approach to emotional management 4.
Opbygningsgården's drug rehabilitation programme at Kragkovhede prison in
Denmark Part II Research perspectives 5. Evidence for the effectiveness of
democratic therapeutic communities 6. Relationships work: experiences of
therapeutic community residents 7. Evaluating the efficacy of core creative
psychotherapies within therapeutic communities at HMPPS Grendon 8. Quality
measurement 'from within' in Russian addiction rehabilitation centres:
background, design and results of a Norwegian-Russian cooperation project
9. Therapeutic communities for substance abusers in correctional settings:
the American experience Part III Narrative perspectives and developments 10
. The 'gentle' revolution of new therapeutic communities for offenders with
mental disorders in Italy: closure of the forensic psychiatric hospital
(FPH) and opening of the therapeutic residential facility for execution of
security measures (RESM) 11. The therapeutic community in California
prisons: a narrative 12. The KETHEA PROMITHEAS TC in Greece 13. Hosting
nurseries in prisons: prison-based 'mothers with babies' units as
therapeutic communities 14 Collaboration, cohesion and belonging: can
prison therapeutic communities provide a framework for imprisonment?