Transforming Relationships in Forensic Psychological Practice is first and foremost a clinicians' guide: it has been written with the aim of supporting people to develop, maintain and repair relationships within their work as forensic practitioners.
Research repeatedly finds that client perception of the therapeutic relationship is a significant factor in treatment success; however, data suggests that forensic psychologists have a poor history of trust and engagement with people in prisons. Tackling this issue head-on, this book explores key factors in working relationships across a broad range of forensic client groups, settings and tasks and reflects on specific points of tension in forensic therapeutic relationships. Drawing on the expertise of a diverse range of authors, it unpicks the challenges in building such relationships and explores factors such as neurodiversity, extremism, professional boundaries and working effectively with women and children. It outlines how productive working relationships can be developed and maintained, and highlights the essential constituent parts of that process, using both a theoretical and experiential lens. Finally, the book identifies and discusses examples of good practice from both practitioner and, in places, service participant perspectives.
Guiding practitioners to find respectful and connected solutions, whilst maintaining safety and appropriate professional and personal boundaries, Transforming Relationships in Forensic Psychological Practice is an essential resource for all professionals working in forensic settings, both qualified and in training.
Transforming Relationships in Forensic Psychological Practice is, first and foremost a clinicians' guide: it has been written with the aim of supporting people to develop, maintain and repair relationships within their work as forensic practitioners.
Introduction; Part I: Foundations
1. The Human Side of Forensic
Psychology
2. Privilege, Power and Practice: Navigating Protected
Characteristics in Therapeutic Spaces
3. A Trauma-informed Approach to
Boundaries in Forensic Settings: From Thats Wrong, to Whats Going on
Between Us?
4. Dismantling Distance: From Watch Towers to Words How the
Northern Ireland Prison Service Rehumanised the Other in Custody by Moving
from Systems of Control to Spaces of Empathy and Connection; Part II: Working
with Specific Groups
5. Building and Sustaining Trusting Relationships with
Children Undergoing Forensic Evaluation and their Caregivers
6. Effective
Relational Practice with Women in Prison
7. Building Therapeutic
Relationships with Autistic People in Forensic Settings
8. Working with
People Serving Indeterminate Sentences
9. Building Professional Relationships
with Individuals Involved in Terrorism; Part III: Working with Specific Tasks
10. Trainee Psychologists and Relationships: Stepping in to Bigger Shoes
11.
Relational Issues in Prison-based Forensic Psychological Risk Assessment
12.
Bringing Compassion to Relationships in Forensic Settings; Afterword: Beyond
Compliance: Centring Relationships in Forensic Psychology
Jo Shingler is a Chartered Psychologist and HCPC Registered Forensic Psychologist, currently working within STRIVE (Core OPD & IIRMS service), a co-commissioned service between HMPPS and the NHS as part of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway.
Nicola Bowes is an HCPC Registered Forensic Psychologist and Professor of Practitioner Psychology at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. She is Past Chair of the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology. Nic leads the largest university provider of forensic psychology training in the UK.
Tassie Ghilani is National Lived Experience Lead for HMPPS and a passionate advocate for system reform. Drawing on professional and lived experience, she works to improve outcomes for people in prison and on probation, influencing peer support, culture change, and the meaningful inclusion of lived experience in justice policy and delivery.
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