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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782681603321

Titolo

Therapeutic relationships with offenders [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to the psychodynamics of forensic mental health nursing / / edited by Anne Aiyegbusi and Jenifer Clarke-Moore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009

ISBN

1-282-05950-5

9786612059506

1-84642-890-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Forensic focus ; ; 30

Altri autori (Persone)

AiyegbusiAnne

Clarke-MooreJenifer

Disciplina

614/.15

616.890231

Soggetti

Forensic psychiatric nursing

Nurse and patient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

FRONT COVER; Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders;  An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Forensic Mental Health Nursing; Contents; Introduction; 1 The Nurse-Patient Relationship with Offenders: Containing the Unthinkable to Promote Recovery; 2 Managing Hate: The Nurse's Counter-Transference; 3 Forensic Systems and Organizational Dynamics; 4 The Best Defence: Institutional Defences Against Anxiety in Forensic Services; 5 The Dynamics of Difference; 6 Paranoid-Schizoid Functioning within a Forensic Intensive Care Ward

7 Reflecting on Murderousness: Reflective Practice in Secure Forensic Settings8 Containment and the Structured Day; 9 Nursing Dangerousness, Dangerous Nursing and the Spacesin Between: Learning to Live with Uncertainties; 10 The 'Unthought Known': Working with Men with Personality Disorder in a High Secure Setting; 11 The Patient, her Nurse and theTherapeutic Community; 12 Crying Out for Care; 13 Working with Suspicious Minds and Balancing Acts; 14 A Secure Model of Nursing Care for Women; 15 Working with One



Another:Service User/Professional; 16 Loss and the Adolescent Offender

List of ContributorsSubject Index; Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

For those working in prolonged clinical contact with offenders, the nurse-patient relationship can be emotionally intense and sometimes difficult to express. This book attempts to understand and articulate the emotional labour of forensic nursing and explores the challenge of establishing and maintaining therapeutic relationships with offenders.