Using Time, Not Doing Time: Practitioner Perspectives on Personality Disorder and Risk (The Wiley Series in Personality Disorders) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047068349X ISBN 13: 9780470683491

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 2010

Synopsis

This book offers a wide variety of health care professionals an invaluable and long-awaited resource for the proper assessment, treatment, and management of personality disordered individuals.

• Addresses clinical practice issues related to the understanding, assessment and treatment of people who have been diagnosed with a personality disorder
• Focuses on the experience, practice and emerging ideas and findings of practitioners in the field
• Reflects the multidisciplinary nature of practice in the field
• Aimed at practitioners working in high security hospitals, prisons and other community services

About this title

About the Author

Allison Tennant is a Nurse Consultant and works at The Peaks Unit at Rampton Hospital Nottinghamshire Health Care NHS Trust. She is a Cognitive Behavioural therapist, and leads the Dialectical Behavioural (DBT) programme in the Unit. Her other interests include treatment evaluation and developing frameworks to ensure that staff receive clinical supervision to help maintain a healthy workforce.

Kevin Howells is a chartered clinical and forensic psychologist. He has worked extensively as a practitioner, researcher and academic in the fields of forensic mental health and rehabilitation of offenders. He is Professor of Forensic/Clinical Psychology in the Institute of Mental Health at Nottingham University, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and Academic Chair in the Peaks Unit at Rampton Hospital.

From the Back Cover

The past several years have seen a dramatic surge in the requirement of service provision for individuals with personality disorders deemed to pose a high risk of harm to others. Using Time, Not Doing Time is a much-needed response to the increasing demand for information in this rapidly growing clinical service area, and offers an invaluable and long-awaited resource for the proper assessment, treatment, and management of personality disordered individuals.

Presenting practical information, emerging ideas and the findings of practitioners, Using Time, Not Doing Time is written to assist clinical practitioners with this highly challenging area of health care provision. Contributions are included from psychiatrists and educationalists, as well as psychologists and nursing staff, who are playing an increasingly important role in the delivery of treatment in forensic mental health settings.

The growing multidisciplinary nature of practice in this field means that practitioners from many professions can benefit from this book, including nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, day-care and therapeutic staff, as well as prison officers working within the criminal justice system.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047068349X
• ISBN 13: 9780470683491
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226
• Editor: Tennant Allison, Howells Kevin