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#forensicsandplay is adapted to be able to be safely and securely offered in forensic settings. This includes a miniature collection that is deemed appropriate for the security level of the setting. Sand trays of the Kalffian-dimension are used. Forensic Sandplay differs to other sandplay approaches in that the miniature collection will be restricted to non-hazardous, lower-risk materials, and will be stored on ‘shadow boards’. Emma Allen has been the first to set up and offer formal, qualified #forensicsandplay in high and low secure settings in the UK.

#Forensic Sandplay is adapted to be able to be safely and securely offered in forensic settings. This includes a miniature collection that is deemed appropriate for the security level of the setting. Forensic Sandplay differs to other Sandplay approaches in that the miniature collection will be restricted to non-hazardous, lower-risk materials, and will be stored on ‘shadow boards’. Emma Allen has been the first to set up and offer #forensicsandplay in high and low secure settings in the UK.

With the underlying goal of strengthening the ego (Weinrib, 2004), and evoking a more harmonious relationship between the conscious and unconscious, sand-worlds offer insight into internal psychic living states and the knowledge of archetypes assist in understanding the transference and countertransference; helping offender-patients to re-assimilate themselves. They must rely upon their inner readiness to encounter the unconscious and to the process of active imagination. Forensic sandplay offers a new opening into their inner, intra-psychic world where levels of risk, views of self and others and the ‘index offence’ (their main offence) and criminogenic psychopathology may be examined through a non-threatening, symbolic approach. It additionally addresses difficulties with ‘low’ engagement; motivation, resistance, responsivity and treatment readiness; assisting in changing dysfunctional aspects of the personality but also the dynamic, and criminogenic needs that led to the offending. Forensic Sandplay is adapted to be able to be safely offered in forensic settings. This includes a miniature collection that is deemed appropriate for the security level of the setting. Emma Allen has been the first to set up and offer #forensicsandplay in a high secure setting in the UK.

Sandplay Therapy offered in a forensic setting including high, low and medium secure settings and prisons.