Katie Lambert (MSc, CPSychol) is a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist at CCATS. She is registered with the Health Care and Professions Council and Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society, where she is a member of the Division of Forensic Psychology.
Her role involves undertaking psychological assessment and therapy with young people and adults who present with a range of needs, including trauma, attachment difficulties, harmful sexual behaviour, aggression, mental health difficulties and vulnerability to exploitation. She provides psychological input to children’s residential settings via therapeutic work with the clients and consultation, reflective practice with staff. She also devises and delivers various training packages, including attachment, trauma, management of aggression and professional boundaries. She provides supervision to Assistant and Trainee Psychologists.
She is trained to deliver Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, is a Level 2 Accredited (APT) in DBT skills and CBT, trained in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and Schema Therapy. Katie is trained in a number of structured clinical judgment tools (HCR-20v3, SVR-20, SAVRY, J-SOAP II, SAPROF adult and youth, CASEE) and treatment programmes, including Life Minus Violence – Enhanced and Life Minus Violence Harmful Sexual Behaviour Version.
Outside of her role at CCATS, Katie works within the Youth Custody Service and engages in private practice. She has previously worked in high secure psychiatric services with male adults and as an Associate Lecturer at the Open University.
She has publications in the areas of working with young people, supportive observations in high secure services and how interpersonal style can impact on professional boundaries amongst nursing staff.
Publications
Lambert, K. (2021) Working with Young People. In N. Gredecki & P. Turner (Eds), Forensic Psychology. Routledge.
Ireland, J., Ireland, C., Atienzar Prieto, M., & Lambert, K. (2020) Thinking Minds – a cognitive skills intervention: A preliminary study capturing treatment effects, with forensic psychiatric patients. Salus Journal, 8(2), 5-23.
Lambert, K., Chu, S. & Turner, P. (2019). Professional Boundaries of Nursing Staff in Secure Mental Health Services: Impact of Interpersonal Style and Attitude Toward Coercion. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 57(2), 16-24.
Chu, S., Lambert, K. & Baker, A. (2019). What to look for during constant observations: Expert consensus and a tool for observations recording. Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health Nursing, 00, 1-10.
Lambert. K., Chu, S., Duffy, C., Hartley, V., Baker, A. & Ireland, J. (2018) The prevalence of constant supportive observations in high, medium and low secure services. BJPsych Bulletin, 42(2), 54-58.
Lambert, K. (2008). ‘Broken Men Break the Silence; Male Domestic Violence Victims and their Struggle to be Heard.’ Retrieved from www.mankind.org.uk. A copy of the research dissertation can be found under the submission, campaigns and papers section on the Mankind Initiative website.