Maintaining professional practice

Clare, Roger

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“…The restructuring of the probation service whilst creating CRCs led to the loss of a lot of experienced staff (Clare, 2015), making the need for group work more salient as well as saving money for the semi privatised companies (Bardens & Garton Grimwood, 2013). This may not be the best way for service users with ADHD to engage in probation work for several key reasons.…”

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Probation practice and attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder

Wood

2024

Criminal Behav Ment Health

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RationaleTwenty‐one Community Rehabilitation Companies were set up following the division of the National Probation Services during ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’ in England and Wales, under a 2013 Ministry of Justice initiative. Reunification commenced in 2018. A study completed prior to these changes suggested that probation officers had had little training in recognising attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and may have been underestimating its prevalence among their clientele. Given the substantial changes in probation staffing and organisation since 2018, a new study seems warranted.AimsThe aim of the study was to understand experiences of people under a community sentence who reported having ADHD and of probation staff working with them.MethodsUsing a qualitative research design, one‐to‐one semi‐structured interviews were conducted with client facing probation staff recruited from one Community Rehabilitation Company. Service users undertaking a community sentence who had been diagnosed with or self‐identified as having ADHD were then identified and recruited by these staff; those who consented were also interviewed. Transcripts were analysed using a thematic analytic approach.ResultsThirteen probation staff and six male offenders under community sentences, agreed to participate and completed interviews. The overarching themes emerging from the two groups were similar, both reflecting on descriptions of ADHD; treatment of ADHD; experiences of having or working with ADHD in the wider community and in the criminal justice system specifically and visions of future support needs tied to the order. In addition, probation officers specifically raised the matter of payment by results. Both service users and probation staff identified gaps in knowledge, experience and services, but areas of good practice were also identified.ConclusionThe findings highlight the continuing under‐acknowledgement of tailored clinical support for people serving a community sentence who have ADHD together with a lack of support and training about ADHD for probation staff. Return to the national organisation of probation services and recognition of need for a range of relevant skills offers a great opportunity for re‐evaluating supervision and management of offenders under community sentences who have ADHD. These findings provide the basis for a template for developing knowledge and support provision for probation staff to recognise ADHD, or its likelihood, and their capacity to follow through with appropriately informed personalised supervision plans and access to specialist service advice and support.

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Probation practice and attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder

Wood

2024

Criminal Behav Ment Health

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The Nature of Probation Practice – From Clinical to Punitive Managerialist Enterprise

Gregory

2016

Probation and Politics

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Grace Under Pressure: The Role of Courage in the Future of Probation Work

Worrall

2015

The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice

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This article, based on the 18th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture, explores the concept of 'civil courage' and its role in the future of probation work. The reader is invited temporarily to suspend their justifiable cynicism about the politics of probation and to examine how 'nostalgia' -the recollection of past good -can be used to build future cultures and identities that are recognisably 'probation work', regardless of the organisational environment in which they are located. Drawing on recent research projects, the work of others and the emergence of the Probation Institute, I suggest that probation workers engage with courage in what has been termed 'edgework' in other contexts. Controlling the boundary between order and chaos through voluntarily testing one's values, knowledge and skills to their limits and thus experiencing the satisfaction of success in the face of predicted failure, may be one characteristic of courageous probation work.

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Maintaining professional practice

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Probation practice and attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder

Probation practice and attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder

The Nature of Probation Practice – From Clinical to Punitive Managerialist Enterprise

Grace Under Pressure: The Role of Courage in the Future of Probation Work

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