Natalie Parrett CPsychol, AFBPsS
Director of Psychological Services, Justice and Immigration, Serco, United Kingdom
Natalie Parrett (MSc, CPsychol, AFBPsS) is a Principal Forensic Psychologist with 21 years’ experience working in prisons and secure hospitals in the UK. She is now the Head of Custodial Psychological Services for the privately managed Serco prisons in the UK, providing the strategic leadership, oversight, is clinically responsible for the governance for Psychological Services and provides consultation and advice on psychological matters to the Prison Directors. She has a particular interest in innovating and developing psychologically-informed prison practice, is the Clinical Lead for Social Responsibility Units (bespoke units to manage and support prisoners with a history of anti-social and violent prison behaviour) and develops psychologically informed training for prison staff. Natalie is a peer reviewer for academic journals and her research includes: Assessing female sexual offenders’ motivations and cognitions: An exploratory study. Staff-prisoner interactions and readiness to change. An evaluation of an Autistic Spectrum Disorder screening assessment constructed for use in a prison setting. ‘Spokes of Commitment’: The development of theory for the premature withdrawal from prison based Therapeutic Communities. An interpretative phenomenological analysis of prison officer experiences when working with personality disordered offenders with intellectual disabilities. An evaluation of the Paro Seal with a vulnerable prison population in a UK Prison.
