Full Description
Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice argues for placing trauma-informed practice and thinking at the heart of forensic services. It is written by forensic practitioners and service users from prison and forensic mental health, youth justice, and social care settings.
It provides a compassionate theoretical framework for understanding the links between trauma and offending. It also gives practical guidance on working with issues that are particularly associated with a history of trauma in forensic settings, such as self-harm and substance use, as well as on working with groups who are particularly vulnerable to trauma, such as those with intellectual disabilities and military veterans. Finally, it considers organisational aspects of delivering trauma-informed care, not just for service users but for the staff who work in challenging and dangerous forensic environments.
The book is the first of its kind to address such a broad range of issues and settings. It is aimed at forensic practitioners who wish to develop their own trauma-informed practice or trauma-responsive services. It also provides an accessible introduction to trauma-informed forensic practice for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Contents
Introduction
Phil Willmot & Lawrence Jones
Section 1: Trauma and Offending
1. Childhood Maltreatment and its Links to Offending
Phil Willmot
2. Trauma, Violence and Gender
Phil Willmot and Yasmin Siddall
3. Trauma-Informed Risk Assessment and Intervention: Understanding the Role of Triggering Contexts and Offence-Related Altered States of Consciousness (ORASC)
Lawrence Jones
4. Trauma, Personality Disorder and Offending
Louise Sainsbury
Section 2: Vulnerable Groups
5. From Care to Custody
Elizabeth Utting and Tamara Woodall
6. Trauma and Intellectual Disability
Emma Longfellow and Rachel Hicks
7. Deafness and Trauma: A Journey to Equitable Trauma-Informed Care
Sarah Todd
8. Trauma and Offending in UK Military Veterans
Jane Jones
Section 3: Survival Responses
9. "When You Have Got Like Twenty Thousand Thoughts in Your Head, that One Little Thing Can Just Make It All Go Away": Trauma and Non Suicidal Self Injury in Forensic Settings
Rachel Beryl and Jessica Lewis
10. Trauma, Substance Use and Offending
John Farnsworth
11. Early Trauma, Psychosis and Violent Offending
Claire Moore and Naomi Callender
12. Trauma and Sexual Offending: Causal Mechanisms and Change Processes
Lawrence Jones
13. The traumatic Impact of Violent Crime on Offenders
Jennifer Pink and Nicola Gray
Section 4: Trauma-Responsive Treatment
14. A Therapeutic Community Approach to Address Harmful Sexual Behaviour in Older Teenager
Karen Parish and Peter Clarke
15. Containing Distress: Working with Compassion in a Prison-Based Democratic Therapeutic Community
Geraldine Akerman and Nathan Joshua
16. Addressing Trauma with Young Adult Males in Custody: Implementing a Stepped Care Trauma-Informed Approach in a Young Offenders Institution
Kate Geraghty and Chantal Scaillet
17. Trauma and the Experience of Imprisonment
Kerensa Hocken, Jon Taylor and Jamie Wolton
18. Trauma Informed Community Services
Karen Orpwood and Sue Ryan
Section 5: Organisational Issues
19. Developing Trauma-Informed Youth Justice Services
Nicola Silvester
20. Trauma-Informed Care in Secure Psychiatric Hospitals
Frank Maguire, Julie Carlisle and Fiona Clark
21. The Impact on Staff of Trauma-Informed Work in Forensic Settings
Michelle Smith
22. Trauma-informed Care and Culture Change in an NHS Forensic Service
Victoria Hiett-Davies
23. Trauma and Restorative Justice
Estelle Moore
24. The Future of Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice
Lawrence Jones and Phil Willmot
