Global Perspectives on Interventions in Forensic Therapeutic Communities: A Practitioner’s Guide

Author:   Geraldine Akerman ,  Richard Shuker
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367322397


Pages:   290
Publication Date:   11 February 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Global Perspectives on Interventions in Forensic Therapeutic Communities: A Practitioner’s Guide explores the validity and effectiveness of secure settings as therapeutic communities (TCs). Rooted in practice, this book examines the transferability of approaches within international TCs to other forensic settings, while considering how the environment contributes to effectiveness. In this volume, Akerman and Shuker bring together leading clinicians from across the world to offer insight into critical topics, including the impact of gang membership on therapeutic process and the community, how core creative therapies are integrated and how the model is applied in international settings and across varied contexts. Leading clinicians draw on rare reports and papers to explain the therapeutic community model while keeping in mind the diverse contexts within which it is practiced. The book provides a much-needed global perspective on the diverse role TCs have across forensic services. This groundbreaking book is valuable reading for forensic and clinical psychologists, counsellors, social workers and psychiatrists working in secure prison or rehabilitation settings, as well as students in these fields.

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Author:   Geraldine Akerman ,  Richard Shuker
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9780367322397


ISBN 10:   0367322390
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   11 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part I Practice perspectives 1. Changing the game: an intervention addressing the impact of former gang members on the therapeutic process 2. A community of women in prison: more than a voice – therapeutic use of visual and psychodramatic arts 3. Group supervision for prison officers (POs): an orthopedagogical approach to emotional management 4. Opbygningsgården’s drug rehabilitation programme at Kragkovhede prison in Denmark Part II Research perspectives 5. Evidence for the effectiveness of democratic therapeutic communities 6. Relationships work: experiences of therapeutic community residents 7. Evaluating the efficacy of core creative psychotherapies within therapeutic communities at HMPPS Grendon 8. Quality measurement ‘from within’ in Russian addiction rehabilitation centres: background, design and results of a Norwegian-Russian cooperation project 9. Therapeutic communities for substance abusers in correctional settings: the American experience Part III Narrative perspectives and developments 10. The 'gentle' revolution of new therapeutic communities for offenders with mental disorders in Italy: closure of the forensic psychiatric hospital (FPH) and opening of the therapeutic residential facility for execution of security measures (RESM) 11. The therapeutic community in California prisons: a narrative 12. The KETHEA PROMITHEAS TC in Greece 13. Hosting nurseries in prisons: prison-based ‘mothers with babies’ units as therapeutic communities 14 Collaboration, cohesion and belonging: can prison therapeutic communities provide a framework for imprisonment?

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'Akerman and Shuker’s book draws together wide-ranging global perspectives on the current and future landscape of therapeutic communities among forensic populations and settings, essential for those academics, practitioners and students seeking to understand best practices available.' The Journal of Criminal Psychology 'This book, edited by two of the country’s foremost forensic TC practitioners, provides an informative and accessible introduction to the subject.' Forensic Update


Author Information

Geraldine Akerman is Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist and Principal Psychologist at HMP Grendon and Springhill. She is Chair of the Division of Forensic Psychology. Richard Shuker is Chartered Forensic Psychologist and Head of Clinical Services at HMP Grendon, a therapeutic community prison for long-term prisoners with complex personality needs, where he leads the clinical provision and research programme.

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