Understanding, Assessing and Rehabilitating Juvenile Sexual Offenders by Phil Rich

Author:Phil Rich
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010-12-23T05:00:00+00:00

Forensic Treatment and the Therapeutic Relationship

Forensic treatment ultimately is defined and framed as forensic by the environment in which treatment occurs, the reason for initiating treatment and the goals of treatment, the interface between the treatment process and public safety, and the legal processes that often govern and shape the treatment. Another way to define forensic treatment, or forensic mental health, is by the application of mental health ideas and techniques to the treatment and rehabilitation of behaviors that are criminal in nature. This application most typically applies to psychotherapy, a central component of any form of mental health treatment, involving treatment-based interactions between the clinician and the client or, in the case of group or family therapy, the group of clients.

In her description of forensic treatment, Welldon (1997) describes the extension of the customary therapeutic relationship between client and therapist, transformed by the forensic backdrop, into a triangular relationship among client, clinician, and society. This sums up the relationship between mental health treatment and the forensic imperative in which, in the ideal model of forensic treatment, the health and well-being of the juvenile client and the health and well-being of the community are both served in the best possible manner, without sacrificing one for the other.

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