Mary McMurran & James McGuire 
Social Problem Solving and Offending [PDF ebook] 
Evidence, Evaluation and Evolution

About the Editors.
List of Contributors.
Series Editors’ Preface.
Preface.
Acknowledgement.
PART I: EVIDENCE.
1. Social Problem Solving: Basic Concepts, Research, and
Applications (James Mc Guire).
2. Social Problem Solving and the Development of Aggression
(Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen).
3. Social Problem Solving in Aggressive Children (Walter Matthys
and John E. Lochman).
4. Social Problem Solving, Personality Disorder, and Substance
Abuse (Laura E. Dreer, Warren T. Jackson, and Timothy R.
Elliott).
5. Social Problem-Solving Deficits in Offenders (Daniel H.
Antonowicz and Robert R. Ross).
6. Problem-Solving Therapy: Theory, Practice, and Application to
Sex Offenders (Christine Maguth Nezu, Thomas J. D’Zurilla,
and Arthur M. Nezu).
PART II: EVALUATION.
7. Social Problem-Solving Programs for Preventing Antisocial
Behavior in Children and Youth (Friedrich Lösel and Andreas
Beelmann)
8. The Development of Social Problem-Solving Interventions in
Young Offender Mental Health Services: A Focus upon Self-Harm and
Suicide Risk (Fiona H. Biggam and Kevin G. Power).
9. The Reasoning and Rehabilitation Program: Outcome Evaluations
with Offenders (Daniel H. Antonowicz).
10. The Think First Programme (James Mc Guire).
11. Stop & Think! Social Problem-Solving Therapy with
Personality-Disordered Offenders (Mary Mc Murran, Vincent Egan, and
Conor Duggan).
PART III: EVOLUTION AND EXPLORATION.
12. Social Cognition and Sex Offenders (Theresa A. Gannon, Devon
L.L. Polaschek, and Tony Ward).
13. Social Cognition in Psychopaths: Implications for Offender
Assessment and Treatment (Ralph C. Serin and Shelley L. Brown).
14. Moral Reasoning (Robin Harvey).
15. Social Problem-Solving and Offending: Reflections and
Directions (Mary Mc Murran).
Index.

Mary Mc Murran is consultant clinical and forensic
psychologist at Llanarth Court Hospital, Wales, and Senior Research
Fellow in the School of Psychology, Cardiff University. She has
worked with offenders in a young offenders centre, a
maximum-security psychiatric hospital, a regional secure unit, and
in the community. In 1999, she was awarded a five-year Senior
Baxter Research Fellowship by the National Health Service’s
National Programme on Forensic Mental Health Research and
Development. Her research interests are the assessment and
treatment of intoxicated aggression, social problem-solving therapy
for personality disordered offenders, and understanding and
enhancing offenders’ motivation to change. She is the author,
with Philip Priestley, of Addressing Substance-Related Offending
(ASRO), an accredited group treatment programme used in HM Prison
and Probation Services, and Control of Violence for Angry Impulsive
Drinkers (COVAID), an individual treatment programme. She is a
Fellow of the British Psychological Society and former Chair of the
Society’s Division of Forensic Psychology. She is founding
editor, with Sally Lloyd-Bostock, of the journal Legal &
Criminological Psychology, and is joint editor of Criminal
Behaviour and Mental Health. She is a former member of the Scottish
Prison Service’s Offender Treatment Programme Accreditation
Panel, and is currently a member of Her Majesty’s Prison and
Probation Services Correctional Services Accreditation Panel.
James Mc Guire is Professor of Forensic Clinical
Psychology at the University of Liverpool, UK, Director of Studies
for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme, and an honorary
consultant clinical psychologist in Mersey Care NHS Trust. A
chartered clinical and forensic psychologist, he carries out
psycholegal work involving assessment of offenders and has prepared
reports on young offenders charged with offences of violence, for
hearings of the Mental Health Review Tribunal on adults detained in
secure hospitals, and for the Criminal Cases Review Commission. He
has conducted research in prisons, probation services, and other
settings on aspects of the effectiveness of treatment with
offenders and allied topics. He has engaged in a range of
consultative work with criminal justice agencies in the United
Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong. He was
co-organizer of the What Works series of conferences, and has
written or edited 12 books and numerous other publications on this
and related areas.