Consultancy and Advising in Forensic Practice: Empirical and Practical Guidelines (repost)

‘This is an erudite text that takes the psychological client service model back a step or two and uses it to inform how consultant psychologists can work better with the organisations that fund their work. This is important since psychologists are generally trained in working with client's best interests in mind, but not in how to provide services with the organisation's interests in mind.

This book provides guidance and practical advice on how to do the latter more effectively and comprehensively.

‘Organisations have responsibilities to deliver evidence-based services: psychologists have the skills to deliver the services, but need to be aware of and provide evaluation evidence that supports the over-arching values and needs of the organisations that hire them. Such evaluation evidence may indicate that changes are required; but then such changes would be defensible and evidence-based, and not merely a change for the sake of change. In sum, this is an excellent book for all consultant psychologists and I thoroughly recommend it as a core text for any practitioner's book shelf.’
—Douglas P. Boer, Associate Professor of Psychology, The University of Waikato, New Zealand

‘This innovative text has long been needed and makes a uniquely valuable contribution to forensic practice. It covers both theoretical and practical issues, and will be of great interest and value to all professionals working in the forensic arena.’
—David Farrington, Professor of Psychological Criminology, Cambridge University, UK