psychological formulation

Question 1

what is psychological formulation

Answer 1

a way of making sense of a persons difficulties, by looking at their relationships, biological and social, life events and how they have interpreted the events that have happened to them

Question 2

what steps do psychologists take

Answer 2

• find out why someone committed the crime
• assessing what influenced their behaviour
• get a personal story from them
• shows background factors and triggers

Question 3

evaluation

Answer 3

+ formulations can help to simplify a lot of complex info and to explain the factors influencing the offenders behaviour to other professionals
+ helps to make decisions about their futures
+ useful way of explaining why they may have committed the crime

• difficult to gain all info
• may forget or lie
• relying on the offender
• may lead to them blaming their past