Psychology in Probation Services [Paperback]

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• Outlines the strategic framework for psychological services across prisons and probation.
  
• Gives an up-to-date picture of some key emerging areas of applied psychological practice in probation settings.
  
• Covers the development of applied psychological services, court work, mental health, working with sex offenders, risk assessment, group work, cognitive skills, multi-agency public protection panels, and lifer assessments.
  
• The editors are Deputy Head and Head of Psychology for Prisons and Probation Services, and therefore well placed to compile this book.
  
• Complements Graham Towl’s book Psychology in Prisons (BPS Blackwell, 2003).

Foreword – Herschel Prins, University of Loughborough and TrentUniversity.

Editors’ Preface.

Series Editors’ Preface.

Revolving Doors Agency – its Work with Offenders in the Community.

1. Applied Psychological Services in the National Probation Service for England and Wales – Graham Towl and David Crighton.

2. Work in the Courts – David Crighton.

3. Counselling Psychologists and Mental Health Work in Probation Services – Sharon Mayer, Devon NHS Trust.

4. The Role of Psychology in the Assessment and Treatment of Slc,