This workshop will focus on current developments in the field of sex offenders, specifically with regard to deception and denial, assessment and treatment as well as a focus on victim interviews. Day one will begin with discussion of the new Good Lives Model, its strengths and weaknesses and its status in relapse prevention as the treatment of choice for sexual offenders. The literature on treatment components will be addressed including which treatments appear to reduce offending and which do not. The role of pornography will be described along with a discussion of child pornography and its relationship to sexual offending. Many sexual offenders are antisocial and a section of the workshop will address treatment of antisocial attitudes and beliefs in both adolescents and adults. Female sex offenders are increasingly seen and this workshop will examine the types of female sex offenders, their characteristics, their similarities and differences from male sex offenders and the implications for treatment. Estimates suggest that juvenile sex offenders commit between 1/3 and ½ of all child molestations. The types of juvenile offenders will be discussed along with current methods of assessing their risk.
Day 2 will look at reliable methods of detecting deception. Most methods suggested by conventional wisdom are not accurate, and those that are more accurate are lesser known. The state of actuarial assessment of sex offenders, including the current controversy over aging will be addressed. Finally, the general literature on suggestibility is often used in court to discount the reports of children. This section will look at which research is applicable to child sexual abuse cases and which cannot be fairly applied. The second half of Day 2 will also describe ways of interviewing victims of child sexual abuse without using suggestive interviewing as well as ways of analyzing whether or not an interview was unduly suggestive. |
Workshop Content
Day 1
Treatment Controversies: Relapse Prevention vs. the Good Lives Model
Treatment Components: Which Work to Reduce Offending?
The Role of Pornography
Changing Antisocial Attitudes and Beliefs
Juvenile Sex Offenders
Female Sex Offenders
Day 2
Detecting Deception
Who is High Risk? The current Status of the Actuarial Risk Assessment Instruments
Interviewing Victims:
Smoke and Fire: Suggestibility Research and Child Sexual Abuse Interviews
Best Practices for Interviewing Children
Analyzing Interviews for Suggestibility
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Presented by
Anna Salter, Ph.D.
 Anna Salter, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Harvard University. During the past twenty years, she has held a variety of clinical, research and teaching positions at Dartmouth Medical School and Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire. She is currently a consultant with the Department of Corrections and in private practice in Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Salter has written scores of journal articles, produced two videos on sex offenders and written four books including, Treating Child Sex Offenders and Victims and Transforming Trauma: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. She has addressed major conference groups throughout the world and has been the recipient of numerous grants for research on sexual offenders. In 1997, Dr. Salter was honored by (ATSA) The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers with their Significant Lifetime Achievement Award.
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