This structured yet flexible manual presents an innovative group treatment approach that targets deficits in self-regulation-a central problem for sex offenders. Safe Offender Strategies (SOS) comprises 10 evidence-based modules that teach participants the skills to desist from problem behaviors, manage their emotions and impulses, and break ......
Guidance for arts therapists across all modalities on working with sexual offenders. A wide variety of patients and contexts are covered, and the book contains a wealth of practical advice on how to carry out therapy effectively with this client group, in a trauma-informed, well-supervised manner.
A Practical Guide to Structured Professional Judgement and Violence Prevention
In Risk Rules - A Practical Guide to Structured Professional Judgement and Violence Prevention, experts from a range of fields provide a concise, accessible introduction to the principles of violence risk assessment and management, and explore the challenges of accurate clinical prediction across a range of populations and contexts.
From experts on working with court-mandated populations, this book shows how motivational interviewing (MI) can help offenders move beyond resistance or superficial compliance and achieve meaningful behavior change. Using this evidence-based approach promotes successful rehabilitation and reentry by drawing on clients' values, goals, and ......
The first book to teach students and practitioners the nuts and bolts of prediction statistics while illustrating the utility of prediction and prediction tools in applied psychological practice. This resource uses real-world examples, helpful explanations, and practice exercises to support the use of prediction tools in psychological assessment.
Widely considered the go-to reference--and now extensively revised with over 65% new material--this authoritative handbook surveys the landscape of current knowledge on psychopathy and addresses essential clinical and applied topics. Leading researchers explore major theoretical models; symptomatology and diagnostic subtypes; assessment methods; ......
Reducing Violence and Other Public Health Problems
Provides practitioners and researchers with the means to make more impactful choices in the design and implementation of prevention programs. Drawing from state-of-the-art research on a range of behaviour problems, Victoria Banyard and Sherry Hamby present a strengths-based approach to prevention.
Effectively measuring and communicating the risk of domestic assault recidivism is an essential part of curbing domestic violence. This book for professionals involved in assessing and managing offenders presents a risk assessment system comprised of the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment and the Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal Guide.
Most of us only half-listen to the public service announcements about safety in the home. We lock our doors at night, but do little else to change habits that may make us the next victims of the dangerous individuals who are always on the watch for their next opportunity. This updated paperback edition takes readers through the mindset of ......
