Joel Harvey

• King's College London

This study explores experiences of authentic care among practitioners and young people at The House Project, an organization supporting young people leaving care in the United Kingdom. We conducted observations, interviews and focus groups with a total of 41 practitioners and 37 young people in multiple local projects over the course of 2 years. Th...

This article advances research on the practice of youth justice in rural contexts. Drawing on Ingold’s dwelling perspective, and empirical research with youth justice practitioners in rural England, we explore how practitioners develop their practice through their relationships to their rural working environments. We find that through these relatio...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the psychosocial experience of staff in a UK youth offending team (YOT) who work with adolescents displaying sexually harmful behaviour (SHB). Design/methodology/approach Eight participants were questioned by means of a semi-structured interview schedule about their experiences of working with adol...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relevance of young people ' s experiences of mental health interventions with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) before and during their time with youth offending services. Design/methodology/approach – This qualitative interpretive study involved 14 interviews with young peo...

There is a drive to attend to the specific treatment needs of sexual offenders with a learning disability (LD) and increasing recognition of treatment limitations in this group. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)-based sex offender treatment programmes (SOTPs) are being increasingly adapted for the LD population. This review systematically conside...

This chapter explores the act of self-disclosure for young people in forensic settings. Self-disclosure is a process whereby we verbalise personal thoughts, feelings, behaviours and autobiographical details, and let them become known to another. The general (non-forensic) adult psychotherapy literature has long understood the importance of self-dis...

Working as a practitioner psychologist with young people who self-harm, in both secure and community forensic settings, can be a psychologically demanding but rewarding job. It is essential for psychologists to have an understanding of self-harming behaviour and how to carry out comprehensive assessments (including an analysis of risk), devise form...

Youth crime and youth violence blights our communities and shapes the lives of many, whether they are victims, perpetrators or family members. This book examines the application of psychological thinking and practice when working with young people who display high risk behaviours across a broad range of forensic mental health settings in the UK. It...

Purpose – Many ex-offenders and substance misusers are employed in the treatment and intervention of offenders. The purpose of this paper is to investigate this role as a protective factor in the maintenance of desistance. Design/methodology/approach – Seven paraprofessional employees of a substance misuse service were interviewed using semi-struc...

In this chapter, I will introduce the idea of working as an ethnographic practitioner in secure forensic settings. This chapter will be reflective and will draw on my personal experience of being immersed in therapeutic practice in prisons and other secure settings after I had first and formerly been an ethnographic prison researcher.

This article presents a reflective account of the emotional dimensions of in-depth field research in prisons. Drawing on the work of Goffman to make sense of ethnographic processes and techniques, it is argued that performance and impression management play crucial roles in the research process. However, it is suggested that there are commensurate...

This research examines perceived physical health, psychological distress, and social support among prison officers in the United Kingdom. The study found that prison officers reported poor perceived physical health and a high level of psychological distress. There were significant correlations between measures of perceived physical health and a mea...

This book examines how young men between the ages of 18 and 21 make the transition to prison life and how they adapt practically, socially and psychologically. Based on extensive research in Feltham Young Offenders Institution, this book examines in particular the role of social support, both inside and outside prison, in relation to their adaptati...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the complexities involved in the role of forensic practitioners working with people with learning disabilities and to put forward a preliminary model of forensic practitioner resilience. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a cross‐sectional qualitative design and samples ten professionals wor...

This article examines the provision of psychological therapy in prisons in the legal jurisdiction of England and Wales and argues that it is important for researchers, practitioners and policy-makers to acknowledge and understand the complexities involved in therapy provision. Drawing on interviews with clinical psychologists working in prisons in...

In this chapter, the authors focus on the ostracizer. They present a recent model (K. D. Williams, 1997) that attempts to envelop the literature and form new hypotheses to test. As will be obvious, up to now the literature has focused on targets of ostracism–individuals who are being ostracized–and how ostracism affects these individuals' cognition...

Résumé Malgré L'attention considérable des politiques dans ce domaine, le nombre de suicides dans les prisons d'Angleterre et du pays de Galles continue de poser un problème. Suite à la prolifération des études entreprises, d'importants progrès ont été réalisés. Nous allons ici revoir les conclusions clés de différentes études menées dans plusieurs...