James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2004

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NS5364:03

Forensic Psychopathology and Psychotherapy 2

External

HECS Band 1

80 contact hours. Semester 1.

Available to Graduate Diploma of Forensic Mental Health students.

Staff:

Professor C Holmes.

Individual therapies in forensic settings, including cognitive behavioural therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy. Group therapy, family therapy, art therapy, music, drama and theatre in forensic settings. Responding to offender guilt, remorse, shame and reparation and their lack. Outcome studies and the evidence-base for choice of treatments. Therapeutic responses to challenging behaviours. Needs and therapeutic responses to specific client groups.

Learning Objectives:

to describe a range of group and individual therapies and critically evaluate their value in forensic settings;

to describe the use of the arts as a therapeutic medium in forensic settings;

to respond effectively to offender guilt, remorse, shame and reparation, and their lack, and give a rationale for their response;

to articulate and critically assess the evidence base for particular forensic practices, including responses to specific challenging behaviours such as arson, sexual offending, self-harm and suicidal and assaultive behaviour;

to recognise and respond effectively to the needs of special client groups, including women, young people, people with intellectual disability, people with co-occurring substance abuse, people from non-English speaking backgrounds and cultural or religious minorities, the elderly and the infirm.

Assessment by a case study (100%).