ABSTRACT
Provision of therapy in forensic services involves working in diverse settings (community, in-patient, prison settings) with complex and challenging clients who have a high likelihood of boundary breaches, pose multiple risks and are managed by multiple agencies (e.g. probation, police, health, and voluntary services). Therapists are also subject to wider systemic pressures of judicial and public scrutiny. These high demands raise frequent moral and ethical issues and systemic re-enactments that impact on therapeutic work. Effective, systematic clinical supervision for those working in forensic settings is a recognised necessity for the positive well-being of the therapist and ‘healthy’ team, and service functioning (Davies 2015) and is ultimately benefi cial for the client and therefore safeguards any potential future victims.
