New for the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Approaches to the Treatment of Sexual Offenders describes and evaluates the current methods of measuring sexual interest in sex offenders – namely penile plethysmography, the Abel Assessment for Sexual Interest, Affinity 2.1, the Implicit Association Test, the Stroop test and the polygraph. The book also discusses how established cognitive assessment methods such as the attentional blink and the startle probe reflex can be adapted for use with sex offenders. It therefore brings together in one volume all the latest research and practice in this area, along with critical commentary on the effectiveness of each method.
Table des matières
About the Editors.
List of Contributors.
Series Editors’ Preface.
Introduction (David Thornton and D. Richard Laws).
1 Penile Plethysmography: Strengths, Limitations, Innovations
(D. Richard Laws).
2 The Abel Assessment for Sexual Interests – 2: A Critical
Review (Susan J. Sachsenmaier and Carmen L.Z. Gress).
3 Affinity: The Development of a Self-Report Assessment of
Paedophile Sexual Interest Incorporating a Viewing Time Validity
Measure (David V. Glasgow).
4 Cognitive Modelling of Sexual Arousal and Interest: Choice
Reaction Time Measures (Carmen L.Z. Gress and D. Richard
Laws).
5 The Implicit Association Test as a Measure of Sexual Interest
(Nicola S. Gray and Robert J. Snowden).
6 Measuring Child Molesters’ Implicit Cognitions about
Self and Children (Kevin L. Nunes).
7 The Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Test of Sexual Interest
in Child Molesters (Vanja E. Flak, Anthony R. Beech and Glyn W.
Humphreys).
8 Assessing Sexual Interest with the Emotional Stroop Test
(Paul Smith).
9 Comparing Two Implicit Cognitive Measures of Sexual Interest:
A Pictorial Modified Stroop Task and the Implicit Association Test
(Caoilte ´O Ciardha and Michael Gormley).
10 The Startle Probe Reflex: An Alternative Approach to the
Measurement of Sexual Interest (Jeffrey E. Hecker, Matthew W.
King and R. Jamie Scoular).
11 Postscript: Steps Towards Effective Assessment of Sexual
Interest (David Thornton and D. Richard Laws).
Index.
A propos de l’auteur
David Thornton is the treatment director for
Wisconsin’s program for sexually violent persons, and an
Adjunct Professor in the department of Clinical Psychology at the
University of Bergen, Norway. He is co-author of STATIC-99,
the most widely used risk assessment instrument for sexual
offenders in the world, and also of Risk Matrix 2000, the
commonly used risk assessment instrument in the United Kingdom. He
currently serves on the editorial board of Sexual Abuse: A
Journal of Research and Treatment, and is a member of the
Executive Board of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual
Abusers.
D. Richard Laws is co-director of the Pacific
Psychological Assessment Corporation in Victoria, BC, Canada. He is
an adjunct faculty member at Simon Fraser University and the
University of Birmingham, UK. Dr. Laws is known in the research
field of sexual deviance primarily for his development of
assessment procedures. He currently serves on the editorial boards
of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment,
Journal of Sexual Aggression, Journal of Interpersonal
Violence and Legal and Criminological Psychology.
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