psychological formulation Flashcards
what is PF an example of in criteria?
an example of understanding offender behaviour
who performs a PF/
a forensice psychoigist in a cirminal contxt
what does the formulation help to understand?
unterstand why an individual may have committed a crime and their core problems which may have contributed to it
summarise each difficulty to see how they relate to each other
what does the formulation summarise?
how each difficulty in an offenders life is related to each other and how this may have contributed to the crime
what is the aim of a psychological formation?
to assess the causes of an individuals criminal behaviour and to identify the risk of reoffending and to suggest a suitable treatment
what information is gathered form the offender?
- thoughts, feelings, behaviour and physical symptoms to the crime
- early experiences
- triggers
- core beliefs
why are thoughts, feelings, behaviour and physical symptoms collected?
it allows a bigger picture to be created in terms of what was going on in the individual at the time of the crime
why does the formulation take into account individual differences?
it is a very personal account of an individual that only relates to them and the functioning of the behaviour to the individual e.g. what benefits does it
what does it try to understand in terms of benefits to the offender?
how the functioning if the particular behaviour benefits the individual
what is a strength of the formulation?
it allows a behaviour to be simplified down in order for the offender to understand what may have caused it
also provides a treatment in order to prevent in happening again
what is a weakness in its simplification?
it may have ethical issues in the fact that it simplifies behaviour
what is a weakness about data collected?
not all necessary information might be gathered due to the fact that it is self report
social desirability
what did connell 2014 say?
that organising a lot of information into a structured plan is not easy
a lot of contradictory evidence
