People hurt people: reconceptualising criminogenic need to promote trauma sensitive and compassion focussed practice

People hurt people: reconceptualising criminogenic need to promote trauma sensitive and compassion focussed practice Jon Taylor, Kerensa Hocken The Journal of Forensic Practice, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This paper aims to outline the human capacity for harmfulness and details the role of trauma and adversity in the consolidation of harmful capacities. The paper is a theoretical overview and offers a rationale for developing more trauma sensitive practices. The paper proposes compassion focussed therapy (CFT) as an overarching approach to organising interventions. The paper invites practitioners to develop a holistic approach to forensic interventions incorporating a collaborative formulation and personal objectives for service users. CFT and trauma informed approaches to working with risk are relatively new in the forensic field. This paper provides a rationale for the further development of such approaches within forensic settings.
Source: Journal of Forensic Practice - Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Source Type: research