The Forensic Focus series is now well established, and the two volume Forensic Psychotherapy: Crime, Psychodynamics and the Offender Patient has been acclaimed as a ground breaking work. Several new books are now in the process of being published - let us know if you would like us to email you on publication. Books in related areas can be found on our Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis page.
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A Personality Disorder Reader offers a comprehensive and accessible collection of papers that will be practically useful to practitioners working in secure and non-secure settings with patients who have personality disorders.
2008, Paperback: £22.99/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-640-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 280pp
Keywords: challenging behaviour, community care, counselling, forensic psychotherapy, mental health, mental illness, offenders, psychiatry, psychology, social care, social work
Psychiatry in Prisons provides a comprehensive overview of the history, problems and development of psychiatric health care in prisons, focusing particularly on the UK. The contributors tackle a broad range of issues, from familiar mental health issues such as substance misuse, self-injury and health screening to complex legal, moral and philosophical dilemmas. It also draws comparisons with... more »
2009, Paperback: £34.99/ $49.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-223-6, 246mm x 189mm / 10in x 7.5in, 320pp
Keywords: forensic psychotherapy, probation, psychiatry
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... more »
2008, Paperback: £22.99/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-949-5, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp
Keywords: forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, mental health, nursing, offenders, psychiatry, psychology, therapeutic communities
A Personality Disorder Reader offers a comprehensive and accessible collection of papers that will be practically useful to practitioners working in secure and non-secure settings with patients who have personality disorders. more »
2008, Paperback: £22.99/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-640-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 280pp
Keywords: challenging behaviour, community care, counselling, forensic psychotherapy, mental health, mental illness, offenders, psychiatry, psychology, social care, social work
'This is a book for practitioners - essentially a self-training book but also one that could be used as a source of knowledge in a complex and controversial field. The author knows about the realities at the grass roots, how NHS mental health care is currently set up, what types of approach are practicable and what are not and more than all that he understands what busy practitioners may... more »
2008, Paperback: £18.99/ $37.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-621-0, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 208pp
Keywords: forensic psychotherapy, mental health, occupational therapy, offenders, psychiatry, psychology, race, social work
Professionals working in a range of clinical settings are regularly called upon to work with angry clients, and they may find their skills and resources for working with this powerful emotion limited. Art Therapy and Anger demonstrates how the non-verbal medium of art therapy provides an ideal outlet for the expression of thoughts and feelings that are too complex and painful to put... more »
2008, Paperback: £19.99/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-425-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 272pp
Keywords: anger management, art therapy, child psychology, counselling, forensic psychotherapy, offenders
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. more »
2008, Paperback: £25.00/ $49.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-550-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp
Keywords: forensic psychotherapy, mental health, offenders, psychiatry, psychology, sexual abuse
R U Listenin'? challenges men to reflect on their personal and emotional behaviour and uses prison life as an analogy to help them rethink their perspectives.
Aimed at professionals working with men who are challenging the boundaries of society or any man who feels frustrated by his life, the book offers detailed illustrative case studies, structured exercises and topics for... more »
2008, Paperback: £16.99/ $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-616-6, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp
Keywords: adults, anger management, challenging behaviour, counselling, forensic psychotherapy, offenders, probation, psychology, social work
This comprehensive guide provides an accessible introduction to the philosophy of restorative justice and its practical application in a wide range of settings, showing how it can help both victims and offenders when harm has been done. more »
2007, Paperback: £28.00/ $49.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-074-4, 246mm x 173mm / 10in x 7in, 472pp
Keywords: adult protection, adults, counselling, offenders, probation, restorative justice, social work, social work law
What precipitates mental breakdown? How do people experience such extremes – and how do they see others’ interpretations and interventions? Most important, how do people recover from these episodes and get their lives back? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology of first-hand accounts of mental breakdown and recovery. Eleven very different stories together... more »
2006, Paperback: £17.99/ $30.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-057-7, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 204pp
Keywords: counselling, forensic psychotherapy, mental health, occupational therapy, psychiatry, psychology, social work, therapeutic communities
'This timely, carefully researched and disturbing book emphasises the need for the government to take urgent action to provide for the distinct needs of all women who become subject to the Criminal Justice System. Imprisonment accelerates the process of ageing. Azrini Wahidin's description of the lack of humanity and decency in the way the increasing number of elderly women are... more »
2004, Paperback: £19.95/ $36.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-170-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp
Keywords: counselling, forensic psychotherapy, offenders, older people, probation, social care, social work, trauma, violence
A pressing need for the integration of current practice, research and service development is addressed in this comprehensive book, which explores the experience of work with women in secure mental health settings. more »
2004, Paperback: £22.99/ $44.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-218-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
Keywords: forensic psychotherapy, mental health
As a psychodynamic theory of both normal development and psychopathology, attachment theory has particular utility for forensic psychiatry. A Matter of Security provides an account of the development of arousal and affect regulation, which offers a new way of thinking about mental disorders in offenders. This book also discusses the development of personality in terms of interpersonal... more »
2003, Paperback: £24.99/ $42.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-177-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 272pp
Keywords: attachment, forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy
John Woods presents a theoretical approach and practical suggestions for mental health practitioners working therapeutically with young people who have abused. Drawing on his long-standing experience, he has developed an integrated theory that bridges the gap between existing cognitive behavioural and psychoanalytic approaches. He shows how this individual treatment model can be applied in a... more »
2003, Paperback: £22.99/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-093-5, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp
Keyword: forensic psychotherapy
Personality Disorder (PD) is one of the most difficult psychological conditions to classify and treat and in the past literature on the subject has tended to neglect the invaluable viewpoint of sufferers themselves. Drawing on extensive research carried out in conjunction with service users, Heather Castillo seeks to adjust this imbalance and looks at the classification and treatment of PD... more »
2002, Paperback: £22.99/ $44.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-053-9, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
Keywords: forensic psychotherapy, mental health
This book looks at what happened when the government of Victoria, Australia, enacted special legislation to detain one person with a severe antisocial personality disorder on the grounds of his presumed dangerousness, despite the fact that he did not fit within the ordinary criteria of mental illness or criminality. In doing so, it interfered with the law's protection of civil rights and... more »
2002, Paperback: £25.00/ $45.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-006-5, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp
Keywords: forensic psychiatry, law, mental illness, social policy
