Home

Welcome to the Conference Website

This website contains information about the 'Therapy in forensic settings: practices and challenges' conference being held at The Open University in June 2014. Please use the tabs above to see the programme, find out about the speakers and see details of how to register.

The conference is being organised and supported by The Open University's International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research. It features presentations on contemporary forensic psychological research and practice, with an emphasis on the challenges faced when working therapeutically in forensic settings. Topics include:

• HMP Grendon - the UK's only therapeutic prison community
• psychotherapy and violent offenders
• restorative justice and sexual victimisation
• disclosure in forensic settings
• dialectical behavioural therapy with women in a secure setting
• trauma, resilience and growth

The conference will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and students working and studying in psychology and counselling

Contacts

Please address inquiries to:

socsci-icccr-events@open.ac.uk