Dr. Laura Hamilton

Laura Hamilton

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Ms Laura Hamilton
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Ms Laura Hamilton is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist at the Peaks and part-time lecturer in Forensic Psychology.Ms Hamilton's responsibilities relate to the assessment and treatment of adult male offenders committing sexual and/or violent offences.Her preferred model of working is Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) and evolutionary models of offending behaviour.Ms. Hamilton's interests include personality disorder, offending behaviour, CAT, boundary issues and therapeutic assessment.

Instructor: Laura Hamilton

Start Date: January 16th

Dr. Laura Hamilton, a psychologist, testified on behalf of C.F. She opined that because Urbach had not given C.F. a "cooling-off" period and "choices to avoid power struggles," the Center had failed to properly implement or follow strategies listed in the BIP during the incident. n6 She further testified that the BIP was not adequate to meet C.F.'s needs and that the escalation of the incident was a predictable result, given his history. C.F.'s mother testified that he had not received his medication that morning.
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Dr. Hamilton again testified on behalf of C.F. and recommended that he be placed in a residential treatment center. She opined that it was unlikely that C.F. would receive the intensive therapeutic treatment, which she asserted he needed, at the TYC and that a residential treatment center would be more beneficial to him. However, Hamilton admitted that she did not know the program options currently offered by the TYC, and did not recommend a specific residential treatment program.
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Although Dr. Hamilton testified that she believed C.F. should be placed in a residential treatment center instead of at TYC, she admitted she was "not sure what the menu of options are right now. The court explained that "it's not necessarily a true dichotomy between TYC and residential treatment. The record contains extensive discussions at trial and questioning of Dr. Hamilton by the referee regarding the length of treatment necessary for C.F. to improve his behavior, and why treatment was unsuccessful in the past.