International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy (IAFP)

The International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy (IAFP) exists to promote the health of offenders and victims through the use of psychotherapeutic understanding, risk assessment and treatment techniques and to advance understanding about forensic psychotherapeutic practice.

We are a group of professionals, trainees, volunteers, experts by experience and others with an interest in the psychodynamic understanding of offending and its treatment. Our members come from the UK, Germany, the USA, Austria, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Sweden, but we are always keen to develop our international base.

Many who join the IAFP are psychotherapists, psychiatrists and psychologists, although our members also include group therapists, arts therapists, social workers, nurses and lawyers, as well as service users. We share an interest in studying the emotional, social and familial difficulties that offenders face, and in helping to reduce the risks they pose to themselves and others.