This exciting new book brings together the experiences and expertise of a range of practitioners who work within criminal justice and provides a broad and informative account of a variety of intervention techniques. From pharmacological approaches, through the treatment of various specific conditions and on to the use of poetry and art by prisoners, the book offers a series of thought-provoking chapters that will help inform the practice of anyone who works with this vulnerable population. The book is edited by Peter Jones, a leading figure in the field of working therapeutically with offenders. Vital information for: Probation officers, social workers, counsellors, psychologists who work within the criminal justice system.
Peter Jones author of Male Sexual Abuse and Trauma Training and editor of Interventions in Criminal Justice Peter Jones has an extensive background in mental health and has undertaken training as a counsellor, graduating with a Diploma in Counselling in 1997 and an MA in Counselling in 1999. In 2009 he was awarded a BACP fellowship in recognition of his distinguished contribution to counselling and psychotherapy in the UK. Peter is the founder and chair of the Counselling in Prisons Network. He is also the chair for a specialist interest group within the World Health Organization in relation to sexual violence and trauma within custodial settings and chairs of the Wellbeing in Prisons: Higher Education Network.
Chapter 1: Working with offenders with personality disorders Michael Brookes Chapter 2: One body, many voices: the complexity of working with a patient with dissociative identity disorder Lynn Greenwood Chapter 3: The role of the arts as an intervention with offenders in prison Laura Caulfield and David Wilson Chapter 4: Beautiful sentence: poetry as a therapeutic intervention Leah Thorn Chapter 5: The potential of prison health Lars Moller and Alex Gatherer Chapter 6: A gender responsive approach to female sex offenders Sherry Ashfield, Sheila Brotherston and Hilary Eldridge Chapter 7: Drug treatment and harm reduction in prisons Heino Stover Chapter 8: Suicide, attempted suicide and self-injury in prisons David Crighton Chapter 9: The perils and promise of multidisciplinary working Richard Shuker Chapter 10: Cognitive behavioural therapy Euan Hails Chapter 11: Working with women who self-harm in prison settings Julia MS Rose
