Offence Paralleling Behaviour: A Case Formulation Approach to Offender Assessment and InterventionISBN: 978-0-470-74448-2
Hardcover
364 pages
October 2010
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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—Christopher Webster, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto and Simon Fraser University, Canada
‘This book will soon become essential reading for all
forensic practitioners. This is because it represents a
genuine advance in thinking about practice in the forensic mental
health field. It offers novel perspectives on the key tasks
of risk assessment and management and it defines the role of
formulation as the critical task linking one with the other.
This book provides information and guidance that is rational, well
supported and workable, written by some of the most important
voices in the field at this time. This is your route map to
better practice in forensic mental health – Michael Daffern,
Lawrence Jones, John Shine and colleagues are to be commended for
bringing it to you.’
—Dr Caroline Logan, Greater Manchester West Mental
Health NHS Foundation Trust and University of Manchester, UK
‘Risk formulation is the key to effective risk management;
to be effective risk formulation must be individualised. Offence
paralleling behaviour is an idea that can help us to get to the
heart of understanding the risks posed by an individual. As this
book makes clear it is an idea whose time has come. A particular
strength of this volume is the breadth of the theoretical models on
which it draws; it provides the practitioner with a theoretically
informed ─ yet fundamentally practical ─ approach to
the problem of risk formulation. I thoroughly recommend this volume
to all those who have the task of managing challenging
individuals.’
—Professor David J. Cooke, Glasgow Caledonian
University, UK