Therapeutic relationships with offenders : an introduction to the psychodynamics of forensic mental health nursing / edited by Anne Aiyegbusi and Jenifer Clarke-Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aiyegbusi, Anne.

Clarke-Moore, Jenifer.

Series:

Forensic focus ; 30.

Forensic focus ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forensic psychiatric nursing.

Nurse and patient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For those working in prolonged clinical contact with offenders, the nurse-patient relationship can be emotionally intense and sometimes difficult to express. This book attempts to understand and articulate the emotional labour of forensic nursing and explores the challenge of establishing and maintaining therapeutic relationships with offenders.

Contents:

FRONT COVER; Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders; An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Forensic Mental Health Nursing; Contents; Introduction; 1 The Nurse-Patient Relationship with Offenders: Containing the Unthinkable to Promote Recovery; 2 Managing Hate: The Nurse's Counter-Transference; 3 Forensic Systems and Organizational Dynamics; 4 The Best Defence: Institutional Defences Against Anxiety in Forensic Services; 5 The Dynamics of Difference; 6 Paranoid-Schizoid Functioning within a Forensic Intensive Care Ward

7 Reflecting on Murderousness: Reflective Practice in Secure Forensic Settings8 Containment and the Structured Day; 9 Nursing Dangerousness, Dangerous Nursing and the Spacesin Between: Learning to Live with Uncertainties; 10 The 'Unthought Known': Working with Men with Personality Disorder in a High Secure Setting; 11 The Patient, her Nurse and theTherapeutic Community; 12 Crying Out for Care; 13 Working with Suspicious Minds and Balancing Acts; 14 A Secure Model of Nursing Care for Women; 15 Working with One Another:Service User/Professional; 16 Loss and the Adolescent Offender

List of ContributorsSubject Index; Author Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612059506

9781282059504

1282059505

9781846428906

1846428904

OCLC:

437090035