The Judicial Commission of New South Wales (Australia) has published an excellent new Therapeutic Justice resource for judiciary.
This e-resource is designed to act as a practical reference guide and training manual for judicial officers wishing to integrate therapeutic techniques into their professional roles where appropriate to do so.
This guide provides a comprehensive overview and explanation of mainstream psychological intervention techniques which could be applied by judicial officers within specialist court hearings, as explained by a psychologist experienced in forensic settings working
with intergenerational trauma. The guide includes practical intervention skills from a wide array of psychological therapies and disciplines, including skills for intervening with non-neurotypical and socially and culturally diverse court participants.
The goal of the resource is to effect longer lasting behavioural changes for the court participants, as well as protecting judicial officers from the risk of burnout through building confidence to use these techniques.
While this resource has been written predominantely for judiciary working in specialist or problem solving courts it can also inform the work of judiciary in traditional or mainstream court settings at times where it may be appropriate to have guiding conversations for change with people before the court.
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