Psychological Practice in Community Settings

Abstract

In the UK there are various points within the criminal justice system (CJS) where young people who have offended may come into contact with community forensic services. These include point of arrest, through community sentences, to release from custody back into the community (Williamson 2006). Some young people may be in contact with statutory services such as the youth offending team (YOT), and others may be referred to forensic child and adolescent mental health services (FCAMHS), which is currently provided by the National Health Service (NHS) (Harvey 2014). The mental health service provision in the UK that supports young people in the CJS has grown rapidly over the last 10 to 15 years. Not only have FCAMHS expanded (Dent et al. 2013), other models of intervention, such as multisystemic therapy (MST), functional family therapy (FFT) and multidimensional treatment foster care (MTFC) have developed to work with young people with antisocial behaviour. There is a predominant role and need for psychological practice and thinking within each of these systems.KeywordsYoung PeopleAntisocial BehaviourCriminal Justice SystemYoung PersonYoung OffenderThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.