Forensic Issues in Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities

Edited by Ernest Gralton

Adolescents with developmental disabilities are a complex population who require specialised treatment and care. This interdisciplinary text examines the processes involved in working with this client group in forensic settings, and explores the ways in which their needs differ from those of other young people who engage in high risk behaviour or offending. more »

2011, Paperback: £39.99/ $59.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-144-6, 246mm x 173mm / 10in x 7in, 288pp

Keywords: ADHD, adolescence, art therapy, Asperger syndrome, autism, forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, occupational therapy, offenders, speech and language therapy

Good Practice in Assessing Risk

Current Knowledge, Issues and Approaches

Edited by Hazel Kemshall and Bernadette Wilkinson

Maintaining a balance between managing and assessing risk and upholding the required high standards of practice in health and social care can be demanding, particularly in the current climate of increased preoccupation with the difficult tensions between rights, protection and risk-taking. more »

2011, Paperback: £19.99/ $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-059-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp

Keywords: community care, disability, domestic abuse, forensic psychiatry, health care, looked after children, mental health, nursing, occupational therapy, probation, risk assessment, safeguarding children, sexual abuse, social care, social work

A Treatment Manual for Adolescents Displaying Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Change for Good

Eamon McCrory
Illustrated by Paula Walker-Rhymes

A Treatment Manual for Adolescents Displaying Harmful Sexual Behaviour is a resource for clinicians working therapeutically with male adolescents who have shown harmful sexual behaviour (HSB). Comprised of a printed manual and a CD-ROM, it is designed to be delivered over 30 sessions across 4 modules, but can be adapted to suit the needs of individual adolescents. more »

2010, Paperback: £49.99/ $95.00
ISBN: 978-1-84905-146-0, 297mm x 210mm / 11in x 8.5in, 160pp

Keywords: adolescence, child psychiatry, child psychology, children, cognitive behavioural therapy, counselling, forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, mental health, mental illness, psychiatry, sexual abuse, teenagers

Tackling Addiction

Pathways to Recovery

Edited by Rowdy Yates and Margaret S. Malloch

The issue of 'recovery' has been increasingly prioritised by policymakers in recent years, but the meaning of the concept remains ambiguous. This edited collection brings together the thoughts and experiences of researchers, practitioners and service users from the fields of health, addiction and criminal justice and centres on current developments in addiction policy and practice. more »

2010, Paperback: £22.99/ $36.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-017-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 208pp

Keywords: addiction, adults, alcohol, children, counselling, drugs, forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, health care, joint working, nursing, offenders, older people, person-centred, probation, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychotherapy, residential care, self harm, social care, social policy, social work, substance abuse, teenagers, therapeutic communities, youthwork

Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders

An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Forensic Mental Health Nursing

Edited by Anne Aiyegbusi and Jenifer Clarke-Moore

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: £25.00/ $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

Finding a Different Kind of Normal

Misadventures with Asperger Syndrome

Jeanette Purkis

Jeanette Purkis spent her early life reacting violently against her feelings of embarrassment, anger and confusion about her 'difference' from other people. She was unaware until well into adulthood that everything she found difficult, including her lack of success in forming relationships, could be a result of having Asperger Syndrome. more »

2006, Paperback: £14.99/ $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-416-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp

Keywords: adults, anger management, Asperger syndrome, challenging behaviour, forensic psychiatry, memoirs, mental health, mental illness, occupational therapy, offenders, probation, self harm, social work, substance abuse

A Matter of Security

The Application of Attachment Theory to Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Edited by Friedemann Pfäfflin and Gwen Adshead

`This is a fascinating book which will be of interest to those concerned with forensic contexts. It combines theoretical and practical content and provides an excellent source of literature for further reading. This is a book at the frontier of knowledge in a specific domain that offers a useful first source for thinking about how attachment theory can be applied in forensic situations.' more »

2003, Paperback: £29.99/ $47.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-177-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 272pp

Keywords: attachment, forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy

Ethical Issues in Forensic Mental Health Research

Edited by Gwen Adshead and Chris Brown

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2003, Paperback: £25.00/ $44.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-031-7, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 176pp

Keywords: forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, mental health

Neither Bad Nor Mad

The Competing Discourses of Psychiatry, Law and Politics

Deidre N. Greig

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2002, Paperback: £29.99/ $47.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-006-5, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp

Keywords: forensic psychiatry, law, mental illness, social policy

Therapeutic Interventions for Forensic Mental Health Nurses

Edited by Alyson Kettles, Phil Woods and Mick Collins

`This book is yet another from the excellent Forensic Focus series available from Kingsley. It brings together authors who are recognised nationally and internationally for their contemporary contributions in forensic mental health nursing … Nurses who want to provide some future direction and alternative therapeutic options for their service, would do well to start with this text.' -Proquest more »

2001, Paperback: £25.00/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-949-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp

Keywords: forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, mental health, nursing

Psychiatric Aspects of Justification, Excuse and Mitigation in Anglo-American Criminal Law

Alec Buchanan

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2000, Paperback: £25.00/ $44.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-797-0, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp

Keywords: forensic psychiatry, law, mental health, offenders, psychiatry, psychology

Race, Culture and Ethnicity in Secure Psychiatric Practice

Working with Difference

Edited by Charles Kaye and Tony Lingiah

…worth noting is the book's accessibility. Its mixture of essays and poetry intersperses the personal and the political, and in so doing helps to underscore the rich and multi-layered issues that frame black and minority ethnic people's lives -both in the mental health system and more broadly…Its not a moment too soon' more »

2000, Paperback: £25.00/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-696-6, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 286pp

Keywords: forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, offenders, race

Remorse and Reparation

Edited by Murray Cox

`Remorse, or rather the lack of it, frequently features in banner headlines. But there is little systematic study of this important interdisciplinary topic whose relevance has extensive social ramifications. The complex relationship between remorse, shame guilt and attempts at reparation, are discussed in this authoritative work. This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to bring... more »

1998, Paperback: £22.99/ $38.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-452-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp

1998, Hardback: £49.99/ $95.00
ISBN: 978-1-85302-451-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp

Keywords: forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, offenders, probation

Managing High Security Psychiatric Care

Edited by Charles Kaye and Alan Franey

The management of the secure psychiatric services is under increasing scrutiny. In Managing High Security Psychiatric Care the contributors examine the management of these services in the light of their experiences and involvement with the Special Hospitals throughout the lifetime of the Special Hospitals Service Authority.
The book illustrates the problems faced by the Special... more »

1998, Paperback: £29.99/ $47.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-581-5, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 200pp

Keywords: forensic psychiatry, psychiatry

Psychiatric Assessment

Pre and Post Admission

Valerie Anne Brown

This book consists of a series of assessments designed for professionals working with mentally disordered offenders and clients with challenging behaviours. It is written for psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, probation officers and professionals involved in court diversion schemes and is for use both before and after admission. Clearly laid out, and taking a holistic... more »

1997, Paperback: £27.99/ $44.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-575-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 76pp

Keywords: forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, mental illness, offenders, probation, psychiatry, psychology, social work

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