Division of Forensic Psychology 2014 Annual Conference Programme
Wednesday 25th June
11:00
11:15 – 12:00
12:15
12:30 – 13:30
13:30 – 13:40
13:40 – 15:30
All papers within a symposium and oral presentations last 20 minutes
Deeprose Lecture Theatre
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Registration Opens
The Saltire Centre
Division of Forensic Psychology AGM
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Conference opening – Deeprose Lecture Theatre
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Keynote Presentation- Deeprose Lecture Theatre
Treatment for personality disorder: where are we and where are we going?
Dr John Livesley, University of British Columbia, Canada
Comfort Break – Please make your way to your chosen breakout sessions
INVITED SYMPOSIUM
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
SYMPOSIUM 711 – Liz Gilchrist
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Dr Nicola Graham-Kevan,
University of Central Lancashire
Investigating Offline and Online
Stalking: Are They Perceived
Differently?
Sarah Ashworth & Simon Duff,
University of Nottingham
Understanding Family Violence
Convenor: Liz Gilchrist, GCU
Female Prisoners’ Relationships
with Food in Prison
Sarah Passmore & Claire
Bainbridge, Tees Esk and Wear
Valley NHS Foundation Trust
Being watched online: Does
"Facebook stalking" predict
attitudes towards online
victimisation?
Afroditi Pina, University of Kent
Revenge Porn: The influence of
relationship status, perpetratorvictim sex and sexting experience
on perceptions of the nonconsensual publication of intimate
images
Adrian Scott, Edith Cowan
University
Paper 1: Prisoners’ Experiences of
Alcohol and Intimate Partner
Violence (IPV)
Lana Ireland & Liz Gilchrist, GCU
Paper 2: The Alba Project –
Parenting for High Risk and
Vulnerable Groups. Pilot findings
and work in progress
Sarah Landale, GCU
Paper 3: Obsessive Relational
Intrusion: Developing
Methodologies
Catherine Creamer, GCU
Paper 4: Parent Abuse by young
Investigating the time course of
effect on brain function of fatty
acid supplementation.
Dean Fido & Claire Bloxsom,
Nottingham Trent University
Exploring a transfemale prisoner’s
experience of a Therapeutic
Community
Sarah Disspain, HMP Grendon
A preliminary investigation into
staff-prisoner relationships in
promoting engagement with
Effects of Occupation, Gender and
Rape Myth Acceptance on
Stereotypical Perceptions of Rape
Amy Tostevin & Simon Duff,
University of Nottingham
15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 17:00
17:00 – 17:45
women
Josie Williams, GCU
Psychological processes in suicidal
ideation amongst prisoners: an
experience sampling study
Kate Sheehy & Richard Emsley,
The University of Manchester
Refreshment Break in
The Saltire Centre
Keynote Presentation – Deeprose Lecture Theatre
Title: TBC
Professor Alison Liebling, University Cambridge
Crime Writers Section – Denise Mina & Chris Brookmyre
Deeprose Lecture Theatre
17:45 – 18:45
Wine Reception & Poster Presentations
The Saltire Centre
18:45 onwards
Welcome BBQ
Roof Terrace
prison-based resettlement
interventions
Nick Blagden & Karen Slade,
Nottingham Trent University
Preliminary investigation into
change in attribution of blame
following treatment on a
Therapeutic Community
Emma-Jayne Williams, HMP
Dovegate
Thursday 26th June
08:30
Deeprose Lecture Theatre
(Govan Mbeki Building)
(220)
Registration Opens
The Saltire Centre
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09:00 – 10:50
SYMPOSIUM 619 – Jane Ireland
INVITED WORKSHOP
SYMPOSIUM 686 – Neil Gredecki
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Examining Forensic Issues in NonForensic Samples: Contemporary
Issues
Convenor: Jane Ireland, Ashworth
Research Centre, Mersey Care NHS
Trust & University of Central
Lancashire
What is a question? Enhancing
exploration in clinical interviews
Dr Adrian Needs,
University of Portsmouth
Evidence Based Personality
Disorder Services
Convenor: Neil Gredecki, Alpha
Hospitals Ltd
“Using CAT” as opposed to “doing
CAT”: Adapting Cognitive Analytic
Therapy for use within a Forensic
Patient Setting
Katie Gilchrist, Forensic Mental
Health
Paper 1: Personality disorder
traits and antisocial behaviour as
predictors of parentification in
childhood: Gender as a mediating
factor
Hannah Ainslie & Roxanne Khan,
Ashworth Research Centre, Mersey
Care NHS Trust & University of
Central Lancashire
Paper 2: Assessing psychopathy in
a student sample; Examining a
role for aggressive beliefs,
hostility and empathy
Sam Keeley & Carol Ireland,
Ashworth Research Centre, Mersey
Care NHS Trust & University of
Central Lancashire
Paper 3: Exploring Intimate
Partner Violence (IPV): Examining
a role for reactive and proactive
aggression, dominance,
Paper 1: An Integrated Modular
Approach to Treating Personality
Disorder
John Livesley, TBA
Paper 2: The Integrated
Treatment Conceptual Framework
for Personality Disorder in
practice
Rachel Worthington, Alpha
Hospital Bury/University of Central
Lancashire
Paper 3: Enhancing the
capabilities of staff working with
clients with Personality Disorder –
Best Practice Guidelines and
Practical Strategies
Helen Johnson, Alpha Hospital
Bury
Paper 4: Trauma, Aggression and
Dissociation: Modifications to DBT
delivery for Forensic clients
Rachel Worthington, Alpha
Hospital Bury/University of Central
The Voice of a Service User;
enhancing reflective practice.
Terri Van-Leeson, Pathway
Psychological Services Limited
Liquid Risk and Hard Staff: staying
compassionate in the face of
danger
Richard Whittington, University of
Liverpool
'Bridging the Gap' - development
of a transitional forensic inpatient
ward for younger adult males
(aged 18 - 25 years)
Dawn Bailham, St Andrew's
Healthcare
The Relationship Between
Treatment Readiness and
Treatment Engagement Within a
High-Secure Psychiatric Hospital
Mehdi Alemohammad, Priory
Hospital Roehampton; James
attribution and childhood neglect
Katie Lambert, Ashworth Research
Centre, Mersey Care NHS Trust &
University of Central Lancashire;
Niki Graham-Kevan, School of
Psychology,University of Central
Lancashire
Lancashire
Paper 5: Violence reduction and
promoting safety: Applying Peace
Psychology and spatial mapping to
reduce bullying and aggression in
forensic settings
Rachel Worthington, Alpha
Hospital Bury/University of Central
Lancashire
Paper 4: Men procuring sexual
services from women: everyman
or peculiar man?
Philip Birch, School of Social
Sciences and Psychology, Australia;
Jane Ireland, Ashworth Research
Centre, Mersey Care NHS Trust &
University of Central Lancashire
10:50 – 11:20
Tapp, Broadmoor Hospital
Refreshment Break in
The Saltire Centre
Keynote Presentation – Deeprose Lecture Theatre
The case for resilience as an ethical principle
Dr Jo Clarke, University of York
11:20 – 12:20
12:20 – 13:20
Lunch in
The Saltire Centre
13:20 – 15:10
INVITED SYMPOSIUM
SYMPOSIUM 725 – Susan Cooper
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Dr Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis,
University of Birmingham
Working with Complex Women
Offenders
Convenor: Susan Cooper, HMP YOI
Low Newton Primrose Service
Rate of Psychopathy Traits and
Neurodevelopmental Disorders in
an Adult Prison Population and an
Adolescent Population.
Clare Allely, Glasgow Caledonian
University and The University of
Glasgow; Sebastian Lundstrom &
Bjorn Hofvander; Gillberg
Neuropsychiatry Centre, University
of Gothenburg ; Eva Billstedt, Lund
University; Christopher Gillberg,
Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre,
University of Gothenburg
Structured professional judgment
risk assessment of sexual
violence: The views of referrers'
to a specialist sexual offender
liaison service
Joe Judge, NHS Lanarkshire;
Suzanne O'Rourke, University of
Edinburgh
Paper 1: Overcoming the barriers:
Engaging female offenders in
treatment within a prison
environment
Samantha Woodhouse, HMP YOI
Low Newton Primrose Service
Paper 2: Working with women
offenders presenting with
Investigating the influence of
victim attractiveness, sexuality,
and degree of resistance on victim
blame in cases of male sexual
assault.
complex trauma needs
Susan Cooper, HMP YOI Low
Newton
Paper 3: Understanding women
who commit offences against
their children
Alison Hodgson, HMP YOI Low
Newton Primrose Service
Paper 4: The Trauma Recovery
Service within HMP YOI Low
Newton
Marc Kerry, The Trauma Service
HMP YOI Low Newton
Emotion processing and violence
in men with schizophrenia
Stephanie Harris & Clare Oakley,
King's College London
Severe Mental Illness and
Violence Among Female
Psychiatric Inpatients in the UK
Richelle Isaak, King's College
London
Development and Evaluation of a
Relationships group to meet the
needs of forensic mental health
patients in Scotland
Alana Davis & Martin O'Hanlon,
The State Hospital
A proactive approach to engaging
difficult to reach forensic
inpatients
Kristy O'Hare, Katie Gilchrist &
Katie Downsworth, Forensic
Mental Health Psychology
Department Tees Esk and Wear
Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Refreshment Break in
The Saltire Centre
15:10– 15:40
Louise Maxwell, Birmingham City
University
The four field model: Objective
accounts of men who produce
child sexual exploitation material
Hannah Lena Merdian, University
of Lincoln
Outcomes Analysis of Community
Youth Justice Cognitive
Behavioural Treatment
Programmes in Glasgow
Stephen Evans, NHS Greater
Glasgow and Clyde
"Brother and sisterly love":
Exploring the experience of sibling
aggression.
Natalie Harrison, University of
Central Lancashire; Nicola GrahamKevan, University of Central
Lancashire
15:40 – 17:30
SYMPOSIUM 608 – Jane Ireland
SYMPOSIUM 458 – Jenny Tew
SYMPOSIUM 641 – Simon Duff
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Working in challenging secure
settings: Areas of topical interest
Convenor: Jane Ireland, Ashworth
Research Centre, Mersey Care NHS
Trust
Developments in accredited
interventions
Convenor: Jenny Tew, NOMS
Interventions services
Working with difficult to engage
clients
Convenor: Simon Duff, University
of Nottingham
Paper 1: Cognitive Skills
Programmes: learning so far and
the emerging evidence base for
the Thinking Skills Programme
(TSP)
Paper 1: My Way
Simon Duff, University of
Nottingham
Making Sense of Anti-Knife
Messages – Adolescent
Perspectives in Words and
Numbers
Marek Palasinski, University of
Derby
Paper 1: Understanding patientto-patient aggression and
attempting change through
manipulation of the ward
Paper 2: Too Fast, Too Furious?
Parole Board oral hearings: how
to prepare and what to expect
when you write reports and give
environment
Jane Ireland, Ashworth Research
Centre, Mersey Care NHS Trust;
Kate Ward, Ashworth Research
Centre, Mersey Care NHS Trust
Tracy Hughes, NOMS Interventions
Service
Paper 2: Working with Sex
offenders: rethinking treatment
Georgia Barnett, NOMS
Paper 2: Psychosocial Strategies to Interventions Services
End Long Term Segregation within
a High Secure Hospital
Paper 3: Working with
Danny Angus, Ashworth Research
perpetrators of Intimate Partner
Centre, Mersey Care NHS Trust;
Violence (IPV): Building Better
Jennifer Kilcoyne, Ashworth
Relationships Programme
Research Centre, Mersey Care NHS Sinead Bloomfield, NOMS
Trust
Interventions Services
Paper 3: Staff Perspectives of
Critical Incidents: An Exploration
of Perceived Functions and
Protective Factors
Kimberley McNeill, Carol Ireland,
Jane Ireland & Simon Chu,
Ashworth Research Centre, Mersey
Care NHS Trust and University of
Central Lancashire
Paper 4: Night confinement in a
secure psychiatric in-patient
setting: effects on sleep quality,
cognition and behaviour
Simon Chu, Ashworth Research
Centre, Mersey Care NHS Trust &
University of Central Lancashire
Paper 5: Developing ASSIST: A
New Integrated Therapy
Programme for Personality
Disorder
Jane Ireland, Ashworth Research
Centre, Mersey Care NHS Trust &
University of Central Lancashire;
Jennifer Kilcoyne, Ashworth
Paper 4: Working with female
offenders: The CARE programme
Natalie Smith, NOMS
Interventions Services
Paper 5: Working with
psychopathy and personality
disordered offenders: The
Chromis programme
Jenny Tew, NOMS Interventions
Services
Lorraine Perry, Mersey Forensic
Psychology Service
Paper 3: I’ll Be Alright Without
You
Lisa Wright, Mersey Forensic
Psychology Service
Paper 4: The (Previously)
Unreachables…
Paul Jackson, Rathbone LSU
evidence as a Psychologist witness
Sarah Khan, The Parole Board for
England and Wales
Assessing Psychological Wellbeing
amongst Nursing Staff within Low
and Medium Secure Forensic
Services.
Louise Kennedy, Partnerships in
Care
So how do you feel about your
new job? New prison officer
recruit experiences to date and
the impact upon their mental
health and wellbeing.
Jackie Bates-Gaston, Northern
Ireland Prison Service
Gender Differences associated
with the Management of Violence
in Secure Inpatient Settings and
Staff Experiences of Safety
Kanny Olojugba & Shane
Donnellan, Cygnet Hospital
Hospital, Mersey Care NHS Trust
19:30
Civic Reception & Dinner at City Chambers
Friday 27th June
Deeprose Lecture Theatre
(Govan Mbeki Building)
(220)
09:30
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The Saltire Centre
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(50)
10:00 – 11:50
SYMPOSIUM 614 – Jane Ireland
WORKSHOP
SYMPOSIUM 700 – Andrew Hider
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Understanding aggression:
Advances in other and selfdirected aggression
Convenor: Jane Ireland, Ashworth
Research Centre, Mersey Care NHS
Trust & University of Central
Lancashire
Anger Assessment and Case
Formulation
Raymond Novaco, University of
California
Keeping Safe and Taking Care –
Approaches to Stakeholder
Governance in Forensic Mental
Health
Convenor: Andrew Hider, Ludlow
Street Healthcare
Does Cinderella’s slipper fit? The
influence of genetic-relatedness
on the extent of violence used
against siblings
Roxanne Khan & Jennifer Bowling,
UCLAN
Paper 1: “My Recovery”:
evaluation of a holistic service
delivery approach in a forensic
mental health service using the
Personal Aspirations and Concerns
Inventory-Offenders
Catherine Dann, Cardiff
Metropolitan University & Ludlow
Street Healthcare; Joselyn Sellen,
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Making Sense of Anti-Knife
Messages – Adolescent
Perspectives in Words and
Numbers
Marek Palasinski, University of
Derby
Paper 1: Implicit aggression
among young offenders:
Association with dispositional and
current aggression.
Jane Ireland, Ashworth Research
Centre, Mersey Care NHS Trust &
University of Central Lancashire;
Christine Adams, HM Prison
Service
Paper 2: Developing a means of
assessing and managing risk for
deliberate self-harm and suicide in
a high risk psychiatric population
Charlotte York, Cheswold Park
Hospital, Mersey Care NHS Trust &
University of Central Lancashire;
Jane Ireland, Ashworth Research
Centre, Mersey Care NHS Trust &
University of Central Lancashire
Paper 3: Examining intention to
aggress in a forensic setting:
Paper 2: The Costs of Caring:
Compassion Fatigue amongst
forensic- mental health workers
and its relationship with
perceived Emotional Intelligence.
Amy Perrott, Ludlow Street
Healthcare
Paper 3: Connections – A group
intervention for encouraging
mentalising in staff-service user
conflict resolution
Andrew Hider, Ludlow Street
False confessions: The role of
interviewer manner, questioning
technique and personality traits
Wendy Paton, Glasgow Caledonian
University; Lynsey Gozna,
University of Lincoln
Eyewitness Memory Over Time:
The Effect of Post-event
Information on Memory Accuracy
for Schema-consistent and
Schema-inconsistent Items, With
or Without the Use of SelfAdministered Interview (SAI)
Aylin Webb, London Metropolitan
University
Applying the Multifactor Model of
Bullying in Secure Settings
Polly Turner, Ashworth Research
Centre, Mersey Care NHS Trust &
University of Central Lancashire;
Jane Ireland & Carol Ireland,
Ashworth Research Centre, Mersey
Care NHS Trust & University of
Central Lancashire
Healthcare
Paper 4: Sleep deprivation, hostile
attribution bias and acts of
aggression in a young offender
male prison
Lyndsie Barker, Scottish Prison
Service, Mersey Care NHS Trust
Paper 5: Exploring the impact of
ward based groups in enhancing
interpersonal communication and
managing conflict
Katie Brown, Ludlow Street
Healthcare
Paper 4: General Principles and
Specific Strategies – Applying
Livesley’s Integrated Treatment
Model of Personality Disorder to
Forensic Mental Health.
Andrew Hider, Ludlow Street
Healthcare
Recreational and disordered
gambling among prisoners:
Testing explanations
Michele Gunter, HMP Lowdham
Grange, Mersey Care NHS Trust
and University of Central
Lancashire
Paper 5: Bullying among
prisoners: The role of emotions
and externalizing behaviours for
bully-victims.
Jane Ireland, University of Central
Lancashire, Mersey Care NHS
Trust; Carol Ireland, University of
Central Lancashire, School of
Psychology and Ashworth Research
Centre, Mersey Care NHS Trust;
Martin Fisher, HM Prison Service;
Ian Whiteside, Sodexo Justice
Services
11:50-12:20
12:20 – 13:20
13:20 – 13:30
Refreshment Break in
The Saltire Centre
Keynote Presentation – Deeprose Lecture Theatre
Analysis of Offence Paralleling Behaviour (OPB) as a framework for validating and evaluating formulation based hypotheses about the
enactment of risk processes and mechanisms
Mr Lawrence Jones, Rampton Hospital and Nottingham University
Chair’s Closing Remarks and Conference Close