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Challenges in Forensic Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9781853024191
Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Edited by H.J.C. Van Marle
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Local release date: 14/12/1996
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 172 pages Weight: 260g
Categories: Psychotherapy [MMJT]

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Google Preview: This international collection by leading forensic psychotherapists explores topical policy and practice issues. The innovative Dutch system of treatment for forensic patients is described in detail through several chapters, and the place of treatment within and in relation to the criminal justice system, a topic of particular current concern, is explored. The importance of the setting for treatment, inpatient or outpatient, voluntary or compulsory is the topic of other chapters, and the question of what makes a patient suitable for treatment is a theme that runs throughout the book.The book will be of interest not only to practising and trainee forensic psychotherapists, but also to those managing secure as well as outpatient settings, policy makers, probation officers, academics, and members of the legal profession.; Part 1 Paradigm and practice: capable and not capable to be treated in the Netherlands; personality disorders - the paradigmatic challenge to psychotherapy; forensic psychotherapy and the empirical paradigm. Part 2 Treatment issues: to treat or not to treat - the therapeutic challenge; challenges to the ambulatory treatment process and how to survive them - a case study; personality disorders - the challenge for residential treatment; the action film ''Terminator'' - gateway to aggressive fantasies in adolescence?; residential forensic treatment - the interplay between case management and institutional management; treating psychopaths in England; challenges as options. Part 3 Psychotherapy and the criminal justice system: psychopathic disorder and therapeutic jurisprudence; between couch and bench; personality disorder as a challenge to the criminal justice system; seduction of the regime; the chalenge for planning social policy; our responsibilities as forensic therapists. Part 4 The reality of the victim: the challenge of the victim; victim and perpetrator; the victim in the offender.; an interesting collection of papers; Google Preview content

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