An improved understanding of offenders' readiness to change would enhance our ability to
assess and engage such readiness. This paper provides a critique of the Stages of Change …

Formulation of violence risk has been a neglected topic in forensic mental health. This
neglect may have been due to the proliferation of actuarial risk assessment procedures in …

In 1997, drawing on methods to assess risk in institutional settings developed by McDougall
and colleagues (Clark et al., 1994; McDougall and Clark, 1991; McDougall et al., 1994) …

Formulation is the process or product of gathering and integrating diverse information to
develop a concise account of the nature and etiology of the problems affecting a person's …

The reliable identification of those offenders at greatest risk of post-release recidivism is
critically important given the emotional and financial costs associated with offending …

This book aims to describe, collate, and summarise a body of recent research–both
theoretical and empirical–that explores the issue of treatment readiness in offender …

Purpose A clear understanding of an offender's criminal behaviour is a prerequisite for
determining suitable treatment. In the literature, several specific frameworks or therapeutic …

Forensic psychology is a young discipline with little over a century of history. The application
of psychology to prisons emerged early on from a general advocacy of the value of …

New to the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, Offence Paralleling Behaviour
presents an original framework of individualised assessment and treatment methods for …

Assessing the risk of further offending behavior by adult sexual perpetrators is highly
relevant and important to professionals involved in public protection. Although recent …