Forensic Psych TEST 3

Flashcards about forensic psychology, recidivism, and sexual offending.

What does recidivism assess?

The tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend.

What services does forensic psychology provide?

Services in criminal, civil, and family legal contexts relevant to the prevention and treatment of criminal behavior.

Name some work settings for forensic psychologists

Ara Poutama (corrections), Te Whatu Ora, private practice, NGOs, police, and universities.

What are the central 8 risk/need factors associated with reoffending?

Antisocial attitudes, antisocial peers, antisocial personality pattern, history of antisocial behavior, family/marital factors, lack of achievement in education/employment, lack of pro social leisure activities, and substance abuse.

What are static risk factors?

Factors related to offending that are historical and unchangeable through intervention.

What are dynamic risk factors?

Factors related to offending that are changeable through intervention.

What works to reduce rates of reoffending according to the RNR model?

Match level of services to level of recidivism risk, target dynamic risk factors/criminogenic needs, and use empirically supported approaches.

What is general responsivity?

Style of intervention delivery and use of evidence-based treatment approaches, e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy.

What is specific responsivity?

Unique needs of individual clients (e.g., learning style, level of motivation, cultural considerations, trauma).

What are some categories of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?

Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse; physical and emotional neglect; and household dysfunction (mental illness, substance abuse, divorce, mother treated violently, jailed relative).

Name some common factors of effective psychotherapy

Warmth, empathy, and praise.

What are re-entry planning components

Housing, employment, social support

What does cognitive transformation refer to?

Shift in the way they see themselves

What is an alternative dialogue to labels?

Separate the person from the behavior or what has happened to them; put the person first.

Myth or Fact: Most sexual offenses are committed by strangers.

Most offenses are committed by someone known to the individual abused.

Myth or Fact: Rates of sexual reoffending are high.

The majority of convictions for a sexual offense are not reconvicted for a sexual offense; overall base rate of sexual reoffending is 14% over a 5-year period.

Myth or Fact: Only people with paedophilia sexually abuse children.

Many men who have abused a child are not paedophiliac.

Define paedophilia:

Enduring sexual attraction towards pre-pubescent children.

Define child molestation:

The act of sexually abusing a child.

What is pedophilic disoder defined as

over a period of at least 6 months intense sexual arousing fantasies with a pre pubescent child generally 13 or younger and the individual has acted on these urges and The person is at least 16 and at least 5 years older than the child at play

What are the interventions for sexual offenses based on

Individual are not responsible for their experience of sexual interest but or responsible for their behaviours. Any form of behavior involving children is harmful and rightly not tolerated by society