University:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Course:
PSY 421 | Forensic Social and Experimental Psychology
Academic year:

2023
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Lecture 6-Forensic Psychology. Forensic Psychologists: Work mainly in prisons or probation service. Manage and/or deliver interventions for offending behaviour, often through accredited national programs. Forensic Clinical Psychologists: . Work in secure hospitals and community forensic teams. Interventions for psychological distress and offending behaviour. Member of multidisciplinary teams (including psychiatrists, social workers, occupational therapists, nurses). Providing care to mentally disordered offenders (violent offenders, criminal damage, psychosis, substance misuse, childhood trauma, self-harm, depression etc.) Often comorbid. Involved in assessing individuals and building therapeutic regiment. Individual and group treatments (group approach can be challenging, involves interaction which can be problematic, wide range of individual differences, shouldn't be put all together). Staff training and supervision. Research. Expert witness. Psychological Distress & Offending: People with psychosis are not generally violent. May be a link with command hallucinations and persecutory delusions, although someone's response to these experiences may be more important than the experiences themselves. People with a diagnosis of personality disorder or psychopath may be more likely to be violent. Childhood trauma may lead to difficulties with emotional regulation, impulsivity and empathy, which may lead to violence or anti-social behaviour and also underlie personality disorder. Confounding Variables in ability to link psychiatric disorders with criminality: Social inequalities experienced by psychiatric patients-economic deprivation. Circular definition of personality disorder (exhibit certain behaviours, diagnosed, then everything you do is stamped by that diagnosis). Labelling something brings it into being.