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Dynamic security : the democratic therapeutic community in prison / edited by Michael Parker ; foreword by John Gunn

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London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.
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1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Parker, Michael, 1953-
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Contents
Part I. Theory : Origins of Criminal Behaviour -- Social Factors and Crime / Joe Murray, Leonidas Cheliotis and Shadd Maruna -- Psychiatric Factors in Criminality / Jim Ormsby -- Psychological Theories of Criminality / Jo Day -- Part II. History of the Therapeutic Community in Prison -- The Historical Development of the UK Democratic Therapeutic Community / Tim Newell -- Send : The Women's Democratic Therapeutic Community in Prison / Caroline Stewart and Michael Parker -- Serendipity or Design? : TC History and Maxwell Jones's Theory / Dennie Briggs -- Part III. Method and Practice -- Assessing Risk and Need in a Prison Therapeutic Community : an integrative model / Richard Shuker and David Jones -- Supervision of Forensic Group Therapy / Michael Parker -- Throughcare, Aftercare : What Happens After Therapy? / Alan Miller -- Part IV. Psychodynamic Aspects : Inside Forensic Therapy -- 'We used to make a football out of a goat head' : Working with young offenders in a Prison Therapeutic Community / Teresa Wood -- A Schema for the Transition from Cruel Object to Tender Object Relations among Drug Users in a Prison Therapeutic Community / Ronald Doctor -- Internal World, External Reality : From Fantasy to Reality in Violent Offending / Liz McLure -- Changing a Life Sentence into a Life / Judy Mackenzie -- Repeating Patterns : Sexual Abuse, Sexualised Internal Working Models and Sexual Offending / Michael Parker -- Part V. Managing the Therapeutic Community -- Governing Grendon Prison's Therapeutic Communities : The Big Spin / Peter Bennett -- Directing Therapy in the Prison Democratic Therapeutic Community / Mark Morris -- Symbiosis : Therapeutic Communities within Non Therapeutic Community Organisations / Roland Woodward -- Security and Dynamic Security in a Therapeutic Community Prison / Kevin Leggett and Brian Hirons -- Part VI. Audit and Experience Therapy from the Inside : Experiences from Therapy, Men and Women Users' Experiences of Therapy -- Auditing of Prison Service Accredited Interventions / Danny Clark and Jan Lees.
Summary
Dynamic Security describes the theory, practice and management of democratic therapeutic communities (TCs) in prisons using clinical examples and case studies. The contributors explore the complexities of working in TCs and the powerful emotional impact generated in the process of therapy in the forensic setting.
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ISBN
9781846425639 (electronic bk.)
1846425638 (electronic bk.)
9781843103851 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1843103850 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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