| This workshop will focus on current issues related to sex offender assessment and treatment as well as a focus on the impact of sexual abuse on victims. The main areas covered will be deception, special populations, assessment, treatment and impact on victims. Deception will focus on positive illusions which skew assessment and treatment of sex offenders. Offender assessment will look at new research on actuarial assessment. Treatment will cover attitude change and persuasion techniques from the social sciences, new research on relapse prevention, techniques for addressing criminal thinking and a section on whether some cognitive distortions might prevent relapse. Finally, special populations will cover female sex offenders, incest offenders, psychopaths and adolescent sex offenders. |
Workshop Content - Day 1
Female Sex Offenders
Deception: How We Fool Ourselves
Treatment:
Remaking Relapse Prevention
Attitude Change and Persuasion Techniques
Addressing Criminal Thinking
Cognitive Distortions: Are We Wrong About Them?
Workshop Content - Day 2
Incest Offenders
Psychopaths, Pit Bulls and Cobras
Impact on Victims
What’s New with Actuarial Assessment
Adolescent Sex Offenders
Workshop Objectives
Typologies of female sex offenders
The impact of positive illusions on assessment and treatment
Types of cognitive distortions that may prevent relapse
Criteria for supervised visitation, unsupervised visitation and reunification
Ways in which sexual abuse impacts survivors emotionally and cognitively
New cross-validation studies on the major risk assessment instruments
Research on the negative impact of treating adolescents in groups
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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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