Denial and its relationship with treatment perceptions among sex offendersстатья из журнала
Аннотация: Abstract We examined the relationship between denial/minimization and treatment perceptions using multiple measures of each construct in a sample of 185 adult male sex offenders. Denial/minimization was measured with the Comprehensive Inventory of Denial—Sex Offender version (CID-SO), Sex Offender Acceptance of Responsibility Scales (SOARS), and an item from a risk assessment measure (Sexual Violence Risk-20; SVR-20). Treatment perceptions were measured with the treatment readiness scale of the Multiphasic Sex Inventory (MSI and MSI-II) and the treatment rejection scale of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI). Most aspects of denial and minimization had significant moderate to strong associations with more negative perceptions of treatment. Questions about the distinctiveness versus overlap between measures of denial/minimization and treatment perceptions notwithstanding, our findings are consistent with conceptualizations in past research and practice that greater denial/minimization is associated with lower motivation for treatment. Rather than excluding deniers from treatment, additional efforts are required to engage higher risk sex offenders exhibiting denial and minimization. Keywords: denialminimizationtreatment motivationsex offenders Acknowledgments We thank Northern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Services for facilitating access to these data, and Melissa Daniels, Lisa Jamieson, John DeCesare, and Shayla Stein for assisting with the coding, retrieval, and organization of the data. This research was funded, in part, by Grant MacEwan University.
Год издания: 2012
Авторы: Sandy Jung, Kevin L. Nunes
Издательство: Taylor & Francis
Источник: Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology
Ключевые слова: Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Открытый доступ: closed
Том: 23
Выпуск: 4
Страницы: 485–496