This book serves as a route map for psychologists and probation officers working in probation services.
- 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).
List of Contributors.
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