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Offence Paralleling Behaviour: A Case Formulation Approach to Offender Assessment and Intervention
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New to the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, Offence Paralleling Behaviour presents an original framework of individualised assessment and treatment methods for clinicians working in the forensic environment. Provides a framework that helps practitioners to identify and work with offence-relevant behaviour and evidence pro-social change Describes how Offence Paralleling Behaviour (OPB) can be successfully identified and used in risk assessment and treatment planning Brings together leading academics and frontline clinicians, including psychiatric nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, drug and alcohol specialists, and correctional officers, as well as featuring the views of prisoners on OPB Presents methods which allow staff to identify and use OPB in clinical practice
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| Title of eBook: Offence Paralleling Behaviour: A Case Formulation Approach to Offender Assessment and Intervention | |
| Release Date: 10-26-2010 | |
| Publisher: Wiley |
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Offence Paralleling Behaviour: A Case Formulation Approach to Offender Assessment and Intervention
Chapter One
HISTORY OF THE OFFENCE PARALLELING BEHAVIOUR CONSTRUCT AND RELATED CONCEPTSLawrence Jones Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Lead Psychologist, Peaks Unit, Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, UK.
INTRODUCTION
Constructs related to offence paralleling behaviour (OPB) have been around in the literature for many years. Indeed, Haynes (2001) reminds us that for the most part psychological assessment is based on analogue measures. He writes:
Most psychological assessment methods, such as questionnaires, interviews, and psychophysiological laboratory assessment, are analogue, in that inferences about a client are derived in an environment different from the environment of primary interest. (Haynes, 2001, p. 73)
Obviously, some forms of assessment involve direct observation of the phenomenon being studied. In the study and assessment of offending behaviour and the risk of offending, however, the context of assessment and intervention is generally significantly different from the context of the behaviour being examined. This difference between the context of assessment and the context of offending is a central problem for most assessments undertaken by forensic practitioners. Moreover, unlike many behaviours examined by psychologists, it is likely to be ethically problematic to deliberately create the contingencies that are liable to elicit the behaviour in the context of intervention or assessment.
A consequence of this is that forensic practitioners are presented with the problem of assessing something which they cannot observe or elicit deliberately in a
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