Treating High-Risk Offenders with Personality Disorder: What Can Work When Prison Doesn’t

Editor : Celia Taylor, Editor : Brittni Jones

Treating High-Risk Offenders with Personality Disorder: What Can Work When Prison Doesn’t

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2025
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 262
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Individual Psychotherapy
  • Catalogue No : 98286
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032709215
  • ISBN 10 : 1032709219

Table of Contents


1. The origin and nature of the patient's difficulties
Jack Blake and Celia Taylor

2. Personality disorder and serious offending
Celia Taylor

3. Rationale and theoretical underpinnings of the adapted Therapeutic Community approach
Brittni Jones

4. Community meetings
Jack Blake

5. Small Groups
Brittni Jones

6. How do you spell forgiveness? Finding a shared language of expression through art psychotherapy
Jessica Collier

7. Offence focussed work
Brittni Jones

8. Substance misuse
Brittni Jones

9. Individual work and how it is managed within a Therapeutic Community
Brittni Jones

10. Pavilion, unstructured spaces, and the role of nurses and Social Therapists
Miguel Acha, Jack Blake, Dean Bristow and Will Irvine

11. Occupational Therapy, Education, Work and Community Leave
Helen Scott

12. Assessment and selection for treatment
Jack Blake and Celia Taylor

13. Assessing personality and risk
Phil Minoudis

14.Formulation
Brittni Jones

15. How to form a therapeutic alliance
Jack Blake, Dean Bristow, Miguel Acha Giminez, Will Irvine and Alex Maguire

16. The process of change
Will Irvine, Alex Maguire and Celia Taylor

17. The importance of transitions and aftercare
Celia Taylor

18. Staff selection, supervision, training and reflective practice
Jinnie Jefferies and Brittni Jones

19. The impact of the work on individuals, teams and organisations
Celia Taylor

20. Common but complex pitfalls
Celia Taylor

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