A Cognitive Analytic Approach to Developing Shared Thinking
With reflective practice increasingly recognized as an effective way to help staff working in challenging environments, expert contributors explore ways in which a CAT model can enable reflective practice in forensic services at individual, team and organizational levels.
A Practical Guide to Structured Professional Judgement and Violence Prev
In Risk Rules - A Practical Guide to Structured Professional Judgement and Violence Prevention, experts from a range of fields provide a concise, accessible introduction to the principles of violence risk assessment and management, and explore the challenges of accurate clinical prediction across a range of populations and contexts.
Causal Theories to Inform Research, Prevention, and Treatment
Reviews and critiques theories and the supporting literature on why adolescent and adult males commit such acts as child molestation, voyeurism, indecent exposure, rape, and other violent offenses against adults and children. This book presents an integrative theory of sex offending, and the ways it could influence prevention and treatment.
Reducing Violence and Other Public Health Problems
Provides practitioners and researchers with the means to make more impactful choices in the design and implementation of prevention programs. Drawing from state-of-the-art research on a range of behaviour problems, Victoria Banyard and Sherry Hamby present a strengths-based approach to prevention.
Highlights the knowledge uncovered by researchers about how women talk about sexual assaults they experience and the responses they receive from others in American society. This book shows how support providers experience disclosure, as well as factors that influence how they respond to the disclosing survivor.
The third edition of this classic resource provides mental health professionals with pithy, practical advice for testifying in court with the same wit and whimsy and a revamped structure.
No fewer than 10 new chapters have been added, and the entire book has been restructured to reflect the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology's Content Outline for the Certification Examination in Forensic Psychiatry, thus facilitating its use in preparing for certification or maintaining certification.
Addresses key topics in child custody evaluation. This book describes data-based approaches to understanding and assessing relevant child, parent, and family factors. Going beyond the basics, it gives in-depth attention to issues like, how to evaluate allegations of domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and child alienation.