Presentatie gegeven door Joep Hanrath, onderzoeker van het HU-lectoraat werken in een jusitieel kader, Prato 2018. in samenwerking met het werkveld en het opleidingsinstituut Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen.

1. Life long learning, while working with
involuntary clients
On the formation of forensic social professionals
.
Joep Hanrath

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Partners
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Content
• Developing a pathway for life long learning of a forensic
social professional.
• The concept of a professional.
• An example of The Educational Institute of Correctional
Services;
• Future steps to take
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Dramatic events
leading to
• Suffocation of 3 year old Savanna (2004)
– Code Youth Care worker (2010)
– Registration Youth Care worker (2017)
• Homicide by forensic psychiatric patient on provisional
leave (2005)
– Parliamentairy Research on the Forensic Psychiatric
Care (TBS)
• A child of an offender on probation died (2006)
– Risk assessment and management (2004)
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Questions raised by the inquiries
• Questions on operational procedures of de services
provided by these organizations;
• Questions on use of up to date knowledge on risk
assessment & risk management;
• Questions on knowledge & skills of the initial vocational
training of forensic professionals.
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Initial vocational training
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• Secondary vocational training (ISCED 2011, level 4-5) in security,
policing or army training.
For prison guards and supervisors community sanctions.
• Tertiary vocational training,
– Professional Bachelor degree (ISCED 2011, level 6) Social
Work
– Professional Master degree (ISCED 2011, level 7). Forensic
Social Professional University of applied Sciences Utrecht
For probation, youth care & probation, forensic psychiatric care,
prison case managers.

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2006 onwards:
a review of vocational education level 6 & 7
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• Minor Working with mandated clients (2007) a 30 European
Credits (EC) on a total of 240 EC in bachelor program.
• Protocol’s for bachelor training and registration as a youth
care worker, (2007-2010; 2011-2014; 2018 SKJ)
• Professional Master Forensic Social Professional (2015, U.A.S
Utrecht)

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In service training
Probation & Prison Services
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Workers
Focus on acquisition, preservation and
deepening of the knowledge and skills
necessary for the probation & prison service
as well as embedding in the organization

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Connecting
Vocational and Company training
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Looking for a common language

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A concept of The professional
(De Jonge 2015)
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Professional mission;
value oriented
Professional expertise;
based on academic knowledge
based on tacit knowledge
based on reflection in action & on action
Professional accountability and transparency;
professional register &
occupational enrollment

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7 core features for working with
mandated clients (Movisie 2017)
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• Mission
– Switches between core values; autonomy-care-security.
• Expertise
– Establishes an effective working alliance with involuntary
clients;
– Is able to move flexible between control and support in
behavioral change;
– Is reflective in & on action;
– Initiates and sets framework for cooperation with other
disciplines.
• Accountability
– accountable for his choices;
– acts in accordance with shared values and principles of the
mission.

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Central question for near future
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How to assess, for the different ISCED levels 4-5 up to 7
the levels of :
• complexity;
• operational competence;
• responsability;
for these 7 core features of the forensic social
professional, throughout a life-long-learning pathway.
Let’s try; an exercise

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Educational Institute of Dutch Correctional
Services - Company Training (opl. instituut DJI;OI DJI)
• Goal management: craftmanship / lifelong learning
• A recent field studie (Kommer 2016): craftmanship is not that bad
but implicit (tacit)
• Lifelong Learning and explicating tacit knowledge  reflection
(Schön, 1983; Nonaka, 2008)
• Reflection and teamreflexivity are powerful tools (West, 2000;
Schippers et al., 2005, 2013; Gurtner et al, 2006) to improve
(team) performance (craftmanship)
• OI DJI:
• Development intervention team reflexivity
• Inquiry
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Reflexivity in teams
Reflexive teams
1. Reflect:
– Evaluate/learn from situations
– Discuss work processes
2. Plan work
3. Action: do as they planned
4. Seek Feedback (from outside the team) on team performance
5. Are safe (social and psychological)
We would like to experience part 1 with you today
Let’s watch a short film
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Questions
• Is it a familiar situation?
• What needs to be done if the professional is a regular prison
guard? (ISCED 4-5) in terms of:
• Care
• Security
• Autonomy
• What if the professional is a bachelor trained care worker (ISCED 6)
in a forensic psychiatric care institution? What needs to be done
• What is similar / different?
• What kind of reflexivity is sufficient?
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Challenges for a life long learning path
from ISCED level 4-5 to 7
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To assess the level of:
• Complexity;
• Operational competence;
• Accountability;
For the different ISCED levels 4-5 up to 7 of the forensic social
professionals.

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Contact
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dr.Joep Hanrath : joep.hanrath@hu.nl
Leon Palmen : l.palmen@dji.minjus.nl