Evaluating community-based treatment programmes for men who sexually abuse children

Allam, Jayne; Browne, Kevin D.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-0852(199801/02)7:1<13::aid-car370>3.0.co;2-l

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“…Whilst there are indications that CBT within a groupwork setting is superior to other interventions with sex offenders (Allam & Browne, 1998), the success of this approach with intellectually disabled sex offenders is less conclusive. Treatment approaches must be modified to take account of the poor insight and abstract reasoning abilities of these individuals, whilst developing appropriate work in the core areas of accredited treatment programmes, such as cycles, cognitive distortions, social skills, sexuality, the role of fantasy and relapse prevention.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Treatment of intellectually disabled individuals who have committed sexual offences: A review of the literature

Wilcox¹

2004

Journal of Sexual Aggression

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The development of comprehensive treatment services for intellectually disabled sex offenders has been slow in comparison with mainstream sex offender treatment services, which have now achieved Home Office accreditation within the National Probation Service. The author discusses some of the reasons for this failure to keep pace, focusing on the relative absence of an expertise spanning the fields of sex offender work and intellectual disabilities. Attention is focused on the particular challenges of targeting treatment, measuring change and evaluating programmes delivered to these individuals. The author reports on steps that have been taken toward overcoming these obstacles and makes recommendations about further work to be done.

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“…Reports of treatment success appear, however, to be based largely on therapists' perceptions, and initial comparison of data (Allam & Browne, 1998) suggests that the CBT approach yields better results.…”

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Treatment of intellectually disabled individuals who have committed sexual offences: A review of the literature

Wilcox¹

2004

Journal of Sexual Aggression

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“…In practice this is rarely possible. It is unlikely that smaller programmes in particular, will have any outside support or assistance and will be limited by factors such as time, money, and lack of research expertise (Allam and Browne 1998). Whilst this may indeed be the case, practitioners may themselves be better placed to conduct evaluations which produce results that are meaningful to the probation service (McIvor 1995).…”

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Evaluating Probation Based Offender Programmes for Domestic Violence Perpetrators: A Pro‐Feminist Approach

Bowen

Brown²,

Gilchrist

2002

The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice

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Developments in our understanding of domestic violence and its criminalisation have led some probation areas in the UK to adopt pro-feminist offender groupwork programmes as a means of rehabilitating these offenders. The renaissance of the rehabilitative ideal within probation areas has been followed by the need to prove its effectiveness. This article discusses the justifications of providing rehabilitation for this category of offender, outlines the pro-feminist approach and provides a guide to conducting well designed evaluations within a probation context in light of earlier British evaluations. It concludes by calling for further well designed evaluations to be conducted.

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“…Some of this research suggests that treatment for such offenders can have a positive impact upon reoffending (Allam, 2000;Marshall, Jones, Ward, Johnston, & Barbaree, 1991).…”

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“…This highlights the importance of seeking out participants' views of the content of sexual offender treatment programmes in order to inform future treatment. Allam (2000) also used the GES as part of an evaluation of Probation-run Sexual Offender Treatment Groups in the West Midlands. Her results suggest, however, that there was little difference between members and leaders in their perceptions of the group environment.…”

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Who Cares? The Views of Sexual Offenders About the Group Treatment They Receive

Garrett¹,

Oliver²,

Wilcox

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Sex Abuse

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This paper describes one of the first systematic focused attempts to elicit the views of sexual offenders about the treatment that they have received. The paucity of previous research in this area is suggested to be the result of negative societal attitudes towards sexual offenders, as exemplified by recent tabloid newspaper coverage of this population. It is suggested that these attitudes may have a negative impact upon the attitudes of clinicians and researchers, and thus upon the treatment offered to this client group. Therefore, it is argued that seeking the views of the clients is essential in order to ensure that treatment is relevant and reflexive, and promotes relapse prevention. A questionnaire was distributed to participants who had completed treatment groups run by the Psychology Service at a Regional Secure Unit and at a Probation Service Sexual Offender Unit. The questionnaire aimed to elicit their views of the group experience, including issues to do with programme structure and content, group process, and therapeutic style of group facilitators. The results (including a pilot study) indicated that, on the whole, participants' experiences of the group were positive, for example aspects of the group process, understanding and preventing reoffending. Some suggestions for the modification and development of future sexual offender treatment are outlined, based on the feedback from subjects, for example, consideration of alternative treatment modalities, enhancing the content of group sessions, improving the organization of groups and modifying the training of groups leaders.

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Evaluating community-based treatment programmes for men who sexually abuse children

Cited by 15 publications

References 22 publications

Treatment of intellectually disabled individuals who have committed sexual offences: A review of the literature

Treatment of intellectually disabled individuals who have committed sexual offences: A review of the literature

Evaluating Probation Based Offender Programmes for Domestic Violence Perpetrators: A Pro‐Feminist Approach

Who Cares? The Views of Sexual Offenders About the Group Treatment They Receive

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