Full Description
Trauma- Informed Forensic Interventions explores the innovative wave of trauma- informed practices in forensic settings, addressing the unique challenges of implementation in environments that are often ill- suited to such approaches. Written collaboratively by forensic practitioners and service users across prison, forensic mental health, youth justice, and social care settings, this book provides practical guidance for professionals working with justice- involved individuals who commonly have extensive trauma histories.
The text establishes core principles for best practice by examining diverse settings, including male and female prisons, high security hospitals, and secure children's homes, while addressing complex needs related to personality disorders, self- injury, sexual violence, and neonaticide. It offers practical approaches to overcome institutional barriers and reconcile Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's trauma-informed care guidelines with established forensic structures and culture.
This essential reference for forensic practitioners and students builds upon Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice, inspiring further development of trauma- informed approaches as a crucial focus in contemporary forensic work across prisons, community services, youth justice, and forensic mental health settings.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction. 1. The Challenges of Trauma-Informed Forensic Interventions. 2. Trauma-Informed Forensic Mental Health Assessment: Contextual Perspectives. 3. Dying to Survive: Insights from EMDR Trauma Treatment with Men in High Security Hospital. 4. Echoes of the Past - A Trauma Informed Approach to working with Psychosis & Risk in a High Secure Hospital. 5. Trauma-Focused Interventions in a High Secure Offending Personality Disordered Service. 6. Lived Experience Views of "Trauma-Informed Interventions" for People who are on Probation. 7. Trauma-Related Altered States of Consciousness and Offending: Assessment and Intervention. 8. Clinical Approaches to Autogenic PTSD. 9. Reflections on the Implementation of Psychologically and Trauma Informed Practice with People Experiencing Homelessness. 10. A Trauma-Sensitive and Trauma-Informed Treatment Intervention Addressing Problematic Substance Use for Forensic Patients. 11. A Multimodal Approach to Shame-Based Trauma. 12. Trauma-Informed Accredited Programmes in His Majesty's Prison & Probation Service. 13. Can Trauma-Informed Practice be Achieved in Mainstream Male Prison Settings? 14. Trauma Treatment with Young People in Secure Care. 15. Working with Women in Prison who have Histories of Interpersonal Trauma: Lessons from two Compassion-Focused Interventions, Ultimate Self and CRANE. 16. Working with Mothers who Commit Filicide: A Trauma-Informed Neonaticide Case Study. 17. Understanding and managing harmful sexual interests through the lens of traumatic sexuality, loss of intimacy and acceptance of solitude. 18. Holistic Mind-Body Therapies in the Treatment of Trauma in Forensic Settings. 19. Building the Strengths of Justice-Involved People: A Dual-Continua Model of Trauma-Informed Interventions. 20. Nature Based Initiative in Forensic Settings: A Salutogenic and Holistic Approach to Rehabilitation and Wellbeing. 21. Trauma-informed physical healthcare for women in secure inpatient services. 22. Integrating the Art and Science of Trauma-Informed Care: Balancing Processes with Relationships. 23. Working with Traumatised Teams. Conclusions. 24. Future Directions in Trauma-Informed Forensic Interventions.
