Assessing Risk

A Relational Approach

Stephen Blumenthal, Heather Wood, Andrew Williams (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-78773-4 (ISBN)

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Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach offers the practitioner a novel framework for understanding the complex and subtle issues involved in assessing and managing risks related to violence and sexual offending. The authors draw on their considerable experience working with high risk individuals in assessment and treatment. They have for many years consulted to practitioners in forensic mental health services and the criminal justice system and taught renowned courses at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

This book outlines a comprehensive model of risk which draws on mainstream empirical research, threat assessment, developmental psychopathology, attachment theory, and a relational model derived from psychoanalysis. The framework incorporates intrapersonal and interpersonal dimensions and is designed to enhance the reader’s capacity to make a thorough risk formulation. The approach highlights the significance of childhood development in understanding violent and sexually violent acts, and the complicated interpersonal processes involved in managing individuals who have a propensity to violent enactment. These dynamic processes between people impact on risk and risk perception, and can distort judgement if not recognised and understood.

Assessing Risk will be of practical use in enhancing the skills of professionals to assess and manage risk in a comprehensive and effective way, and will appeal to all those mental health and criminal justice practitioners working with risky individuals.

Stephen Blumenthal is Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst at the Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and in private practice. Heather Wood is Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Adult Psychotherapist, formerly at the Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and in private practice. Andrew Williams is Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalyst at the Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and in private practice.

CONTENTS

Introduction………………………………………………………………………….

Risky assessment: making decisions about risk………………………………..

Key psychodynamic concepts in understanding risk…………………………..

Relational issues in assessing and managing risk……………………………..

Developmental aspects of adult enactment……………………………………..

A relational approach to violence and aggression………………………………

Understanding deviant sexual behaviour and sexual offending……………….

Female offending and risk………………………………………………………….

Personality factors and understanding the offender……………………………..

Psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder…………………………………

Self-harm and suicide……………………………………………………................

Assessment and communication skills……………………………………………..

Institutional dynamics and risk………………………………………………………

Formulating risk: a framework for assessing and managing dangerousness….

INDEX…………………………………………………………………………………

REFERENCES……………………………………………………………………….

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2018
Zusatzinfo	7 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	700 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	0-415-78773-4 / 0415787734
ISBN-13	978-0-415-78773-4 / 9780415787734
Zustand	Neuware