Applying Rapid Serial Visual Presentation to Adolescent Sexual Offenders

Crooks, V. L.; Rostill-Brookes, Helen; Beech, Anthony R.; Bickley, James A.

doi:10.1177/1079063208328677

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“…However, Crooks et al. ( 2009 ) have questioned the use of rapid serial visual presentation of child or animal images in adolescent sexual offenders: adolescent cognitive abilities may not be able to allow them to concentrate on the task and deviant sexual interest may be present to different degrees in adolescents. In fact, its use as an outcome measure with adolescents is a subject of controversy among professionals as no normative data exist for adolescents.…”

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The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) guidelines for the treatment of adolescent sexual offenders with paraphilic disorders

Thibaut

Bradford²,

Briken

et al. 2015

The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

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The primary aim of these guidelines was to evaluate the role of pharmacological agents in the treatment of adolescents with paraphilic disorders who are also sexual offenders or at-risk of sexual offending. Psychotherapeutic and psychosocial treatments were also reviewed. Adolescents with paraphilic disorders specifically present a different therapeutic challenge as compared to adults. In part, the challenge relates to adolescents being in various stages of puberty and development, which may limit the use of certain pharmacological agents due to their potential side effects. In addition, most of the published treatment programmes have used cognitive behavioural interventions, family therapies and psychoeducational interventions. Psychological treatment is predicated in adolescents on the notion that sexually deviant behaviour can be controlled by the offender, and that more adaptive behaviours can be learned.The main purposes of these guidelines are to improve the quality of care and to aid physicians in their clinical decisions. These guidelines brought together different expert views and involved an extensive literature research. Each treatment recommendation was evaluated and discussed with respect to the strength of evidence for efficacy, safety, tolerability and feasibility. An algorithm is proposed for the treatment of paraphilic disorders in adolescent sexual offenders or those who are at risk.

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The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) guidelines for the treatment of adolescent sexual offenders with paraphilic disorders

Thibaut

Bradford²,

Briken

et al. 2015

The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

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“…Beech et al (2008) used a rapid serial visual presentation task and found an interference effect for child images in a group of child sex offenders. However, recently the task has failed to significantly differentiate between juvenile sex offenders and non-sex offenders (Crooks, Rostill-Brookes, Beech, & Bickley, 2009). Snowden, Wichter, and Gray (2008) compared the implicit association task (IAT) and the priming task (PT) in a group of heterosexual and homosexual men and found that both measures were good predictors of sexual orientation, although the IAT (area under a receiver operating characteristic curve [AUC] = 0.97) performed better than the PT (AUC = 0.86).…”

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Comparing a Pictorial Stroop Task to Viewing Time Measures of Sexual Interest

Bourke

Gormley

2012

Sex Abuse

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This study investigated the ability of two viewing time (VT) methodologies and a pictorial Stroop task to differentiate sexual interest in a group of nonoffending heterosexual and homosexual men. The two VT methodologies were investigated given the lack of consistency among published studies supporting this method. The results indicated that the VT methodology in which participants are asked to browse through some images is slightly superior to the method in which participants are asked to rate their attractiveness to the images. The results also indicated that the Pictorial Stroop Task did not adequately differentiate between age categories of sexual interest within the two groups. The results have implications for the methodology used in VT tasks.

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“…Crooks et al . () assessed AB among 20 adolescent sex offenders and 26 non‐sex offenders using RSVP. The participants were asked to identify a child or animal image and then a second image in streams of ten images.…”

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“…Using contrast analyses, they found a significant difference between the control group and the intra-familial child molester sample (p < 0.01, effect size = 0.45, and the control group and the extra-familial child molester group, p < 0.001, effect size = 0.54). Crooks et al (2009) assessed AB among 20 adolescent sex offenders and 26 non-sex offenders using RSVP. The participants were asked to identify a child or animal image and then a second image in streams of ten images.…”

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Differentiating sexual preference in men: Using dual task rapid serial visual presentation task

Zappalà¹,

Antfolk

Bäckström

et al. 2013

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Cognition research suggests that allocating attention resources to evolutionarily relevant stimuli is facilitated suggesting that sexual stimuli interfere with human information processing. In a group of gay (n = 13) and straight men (n = 13) recruited in Finland, Germany and Italy, we investigated if and how sexually relevant visual stimuli affect information processing of both a target one (T1) and a subsequent target two (T2) in a dual target rapid serial visual presentation procedure. We hypothesized that: (1) due to the attentional blink (AB) phenomenon, the accuracy of reporting of T2 would decrease when following accurately identified sexually preferred T1 compared to accurately identified non-sexually preferred T1; 2) due to the pop out effect, the accuracy of reporting of T1 and T2 would be relatively increased when T1 and T2 were sexually preferred by the participants compared to when they were not. Our findings did not support hypothesis 1 but supported hypothesis 2. We further found that the pop out effect had a good capacity to differentiate sexual preference between the groups of gay and straight men. We conclude that dual target rapid serial visual presentation can be used as an attention-based measurement to differentiate sexual preference in men. Limitations and the applicability in the field of measuring sexual preference were discussed.

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Applying Rapid Serial Visual Presentation to Adolescent Sexual Offenders

Cited by 14 publications

References 30 publications

The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) guidelines for the treatment of adolescent sexual offenders with paraphilic disorders

The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) guidelines for the treatment of adolescent sexual offenders with paraphilic disorders

Comparing a Pictorial Stroop Task to Viewing Time Measures of Sexual Interest

Differentiating sexual preference in men: Using dual task rapid serial visual presentation task

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