Forensic Psychotherapy: Pathologies and Treatment Strategies for Working With Violence
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With Module Speaker:Anna Motz, Dr Jamie Bennett, Dr Ronald Doctor, Dr Sandra M Grant, FRCPsych, OBE, Mary Haley, Professor Brett Kahr, Gill McGauley, Dr Adah Sachs, Richard Shuker, Dr Celia Taylor, Dr Estela Welldon, Dr Jessica Yakeley, ,
CPD Credits: 14 hours
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- The literature has been studied in order to offer a reliably researched, hyperlinked bibliography
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Self-funded: £160
Organisationally-funded: £250
Institutional account (4 or more): £85 per user
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This account is for using the module as a teaching aid for pre-qualified students. Use the continue shopping button to add one payment per person in your group. We will then contact you for their names and email addresses, and open a personal account for each one.
FEES
Includes a test and CPD Certificate of Attendance
Confer member:
£128
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Self-funded:
£160
Organisationally-funded:
£250
Members of the International Association of Forensic Psychotherapy:
£105
Institutional account (4 or more):
£85 per user
Teaching licence (10 or more):
£50 per student
CPD
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits for 14 hours are available as part of the course fee. You will need to fill out an evaluation form and pass a multiple choice questionnaire related to the content in order to receive your certificate. You can submit this test up to a maximum of 5 times.
MODULE
INCLUDES
- 8 hours of video presentations illustrated with diagrams or images
- Supporting notes, slides or references
- Bibliography linked to relevant articles and books
- Additional resources relating to each speaker
- Discussion forum
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits for 14 hours are available as part of the course fee. You will need to fill out an evaluation form and pass a multiple choice questionnaire related to the content in order to receive your certificate.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- To be able to work more effectively with psychotherapy patients who have fears of committing acts of violence and to place those fears into the context of adverse childhood experiences and disturbed attachment relationships. To be more able to distinguish between a fantasy of committing a violent act and the likelihood of such an act taking place.
- To be able to discuss the effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy in prisons for residents committed of serious sexual violence, and to be able to cite statistics on re-offending as evidence of that effectiveness.
- To be able to discuss whether the diagnosis of personality disorder relates to the psychological make-up of people convicted of violent offences.
- To have increased understanding and ability to describe at least 4 common defense systems that protect the psyche of the violent criminal – such as denial, projective identification, suicidality – and the function of these restricting their capacity for growth via psychological services.
- To understand and describe the importance of carefully placed boundaries when working with forensic patients, the risk of triggers
- To outline 3 viable forms of self-protection for the therapist.
STUDY GUIDES
- Forensic psychopathology – a summary of disorders, e.g. personal disorder, psychopathy
- Treatment approaches to forensic psychopathology – psychodynamic, CBT
- Forensic psychotherapy – history and theoretical schools of thought
- Aetiology of Forensic Psychopathology
- Seminal Papers
- Reading list