As part of my role I work with high risk offenders and develop management plans to minimse the risk to the public as much as possible. In carrying out risk assessments I use several NLP techniques including perceptual positions to explore issues of guilt, empathy and remorse, timelines to explore both past and future issues and other techniques as and when appropriate.

I'm looking to join the RMA which is a new government body in Scotland which has been established to manage the highest risk ofenders and one tool for doing this is an Order for Lifelong restriction(OLR). The OLR is imposed by the court when the risk has been assessed(by me) as being unacceptably high and the offender is unlikely to change their behaviour.

I'm wondering if my NLP training will influence my descision making process as I feel that anyone can change their behaviour given the right circumstances. I know this from professional experience where I have carried out interventions with high risk offenders whom were deemed untreatable or treatment resistant by my psychiatric colleagues and achieved good results in time periods of a few months which is very rapid for forensic psychiatry.

The other issue I face is whether or not to disclose my NLP training and practice on the application form. If I get the job I will undoubtably use the skills as they are fully integrated into my practice, however I'm not convinced the mainstream criminal justice system is aware of the power of NLP and may be wary. I thought I may omit it and once in post use the skills and audit my cases and report on the usefulness of the approach. Mainstream psychiatry is getting more inquisitive about NLP however, as I've recently been asked to supervise a specialist registar in applying NLP techniques in practice.

Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Chris

this link provides info on the RMA and OLR
http://www.rmascotland.gov.uk/ViewFile.aspx?id=140