Innovative Practice in Forensic Settings: A Cognitive Analytic Approach to Effective Relational Work (Innovations in CAT) - Softcover

Jenny Marshall; Jamie Kirkland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1803883367 ISBN 13: 9781803883366

Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

A state-of-the-art look at why rehabilitating offenders in a way that reduces future risk to others means first understanding the fundamentally relational nature of both trauma and offending.

Working in forensic services requires clinicians to deal with complex trauma on both a professional and personal basis. Professionally, they must care for and rehabilitate people who have not only experienced trauma but also behaved in traumatic ways toward others. And on a personal level, they are inevitably touched by this trauma – by reliving it in dialogue, or by observing its effects. A key challenge they face is to build strong therapeutic relationships with those for whom past relationships have faltered and often become incendiary.

Innovative Practice in Forensic Settings explores issues of how to simultaneously hold in mind risk, safety and vulnerability, and how to maintain a capacity to think alongside a capacity to feel. Focusing on a relational and contextual understanding of trauma and offending, the chapters explore how to make use of a CAT approach across different forensic settings, clinical presentations and services.

About this title

About the Author

JENNY MARSHALL is a consultant clinical psychologist, CAT practitioner, supervisor and trainer. She has worked in forensic services for over twenty years before moving to her current role as Joint Trustwide Lead for CAT in Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust. Her interest in using CAT concepts to work with staff in forensic services led to hosting the first national conference on Shared Thinking Space in 2019. She has a particular interest in how a relational model can help influence culture at a leadership level. She also works part time in private practice and is part of the training team for the Catalyse Practitioner Course.

JAMIE KIRLKLAND is a consultant clinical psychologist, CAT practitioner, supervisor and trainer. He works in Edinburgh where he is team lead for a community intellectual disability forensic service. He is interested in the application of CAT in team, consultancy and creative settings. He performed with Steve Potter at the Edinburgh Fringe once.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1803883367
• ISBN 13: 9781803883366
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320