ABSTRACT
Forensic settings present many challenges to clinical psychologists working therapeutically with service users. This chapter offers reflections on professional issues experienced while working in secure settings, including those of motivation, coercion, collaboration and decision-making about risk management. The authors discuss how their past experiences in forensic settings have shaped their current practice in alternative fields and consider how clinical psychology can be in a unique position to influence such issues, in forensic settings and others. The use of formulation, therapeutic models and supervision are highlighted as methods to negotiate some of the dilemmas that can be faced.
