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Challenges in forensic psychotherapy

This book explores topical policy and practice issues and the innovative Dutch system of treatment for forensic patients. It discusses the importance of the setting for treatment, inpatient or outpatient, voluntary or compulsory and the question of what makes a patient suitable for treatment is a theme that runs throughout the book.
Print Book, English, 1997
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 1997
xi, 146 pages ; 24 cm.
9781853024191, 1853024198
35865516
Preface. I PARADIGM AND PRACTICE. 1 Treatable or not treatable in the Netherlands Wilma van den Berg and Hjalmar van Marle. 2 Personality Disorders: the paradigmatic challenge to psychotherapy Murray Cox. 3 Forensic psychotherapy and the empirical paradigm Friedemann Pfafflin. II TREATMENT ISSUES. 4 To treat or not to treat: the therapeutic challenge Estela Welldon. 5 Challenges to the ambulatory treatment process and how to survive them: a case study Elif Gurisik. 6 Personality disorders: the challenge for residential treatment Marijke Drost. 7 The action film Terminator - gateway to aggressive fantasies in adolescence? Reinmar du Bois. 8 Residential forensic treatment: the interplay between case management and institutional management Henri Wiertsema and Frans Derks. 9 Treating psychopaths in England Donald West. 10 Challenges as options Hjalmar van Marle. III PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. 11 Psychopathic disorder and therapeutic jurisprudence Nigel Eastman. 12 Between couch and bench Wilma van den Berg. 13 Personality disorder as a challenge to the criminal justice system Tegwyn Williams. 14 Seduction of the regime Enda Dooley. 15 The challenge for planning social policy Irma Ballering. 16 Our responsibilities as forensic therapists Christopher Cordess. IV THE REALITY OF THE VICTIM. 17 The challenge of the victim Gwen Adshead. 18 Victim and perpetrator John Young. 19 The victim in the offender Cleo van Velsen. INDEX.