Cognitive Analytic Therapy for Offenders

<p>Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) is an established form of integrated psychotherapy which has been applied in a variety of clinical settings to a diversity of disorders with promising outcomes. In <em>Cognitive Analytic Therapy for Offenders</em> the authors describe the application of CAT to forensic settings illustrating the use of this type of therapy with a range of offence types and clinical disorders.</p><p>CAT is presented as a new form of forensic psychotherapy which can enhance the understanding conceptualisation treatment and management of offenders. The book offers a novel description of clinical practice and describes the innovative application of cognitive analytic therapy to forensic work in a variety of contexts and settings for numerous offence types and clinical disorders including:</p><ul> <li>CAT in the treatment of child sex offenders in secure forensic settings</li> <li>the use of CAT with women in secure settings</li> <li>CAT for parents within prisons</li> <li>CAT for borderline and psychopathic personality disorder</li> <li>CAT for a stalking offender</li> <li>community-based CAT with perpetrators of domestic violence</li> <li>CAT for homicide perpetrators (rage-type serial sexual dissociative homicides)</li> <li>the application of CAT for Court reporting and managing boundary violations.</li> </ul><p>This book provides an account of a fresh new approach to conceptualisation and treatment in forensic psychotherapy and offers the first description of CAT presented in the form of a compilation of illustrations of practice. It will be essential reading for clinical psychologists and psychiatrists occupational therapists and anyone who works within services for offenders.</p>