Professional and therapeutic boundaries in forensic mental health practice / edited by Anne Aiyegbusi and Gillian Kelly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aiyegbusi, Anne.

Kelly, Gillian, 1978-

Series:

Forensic Focus

Forensic focus ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forensic psychiatry--Ethics.

Forensic psychiatry.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For clinicians who work therapeutically with clients in forensic settings, the capacity to maintain boundaries is critical to safety as well as good treatment outcomes. The contributors to this multi-disciplinary book address the challenges of establishing boundaries in forensic settings to support practitioners in this aspect of their work.

Contents:

Professional and Therapeutic Boundaries in Forensic Mental Health Practice; Introduction; 1. What the Eye Doesn't See: Relationships, Boundaries and Forensic Mental Health; 2. The Patient's Experience of Professional Abuse in the Psychological Therapies; 3. Boundary Violations: Are Transgressing Professionals Beyond Help?; 4. Therapy in Perversity: Seduction, Destruction and Keeping Balance; 5. Groupwork for Offence Perpetrators with a History of Boundary Violation in the Hospital Setting; 6. Moving with the Patient: Boundary Phenomena in Forensic Dramatherapy

7. Discovering Harmony: Music Therapy in Forensic Settings8. Working with Families in Forensic Settings: A Systemic Perspective on Boundaries; 9. Boundaries in Forensic Mental Health Nursing: Set in Stone or Shifting Sands?; 10. Boundaries and Desire in Forensic Mental Health Nursing; 11. Boundaries and Boundary Violations in the Nurse-Patient Relationship with People Diagnosed with Personality Disorders in DSPD and WEMSS: Some Findings from a Mixed Methods Research Study; 12. Boundary Violations in Medium Security

13. Therapeutic Boundaries in Working with Young People in an NHS Secure Adolescent Forensic Unit14. Boundary Transgressions as a Tool for Reparation within Therapeutic Relationships; 15. Boundaries and Borderline Personality Disorder; 16. Boundaries and Working with Serious Offenders who also have Severe Personality Disorders in a High-Security Setting; 17. Mothering on the Edge: Boundary Failures in Maternal Care; 18. Boundary Matters in a Forensic Learning Disability Service; 19. 'Dangerous Liaisons': Close Encounters of the Unboundaried Kind

20. Neither Here nor There, not one Thing or Another. The Use of a Reflective Practice Group to Understand the Distortion of a Boundary21. Boundaries and Homicide; Contributors; Subject Index; Author Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283907149

1283907143

9780857003287

0857003283

OCLC:

809768140