International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology

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The IACFP is an organization of behavioral scientists and practitioners who are concerned with the delivery of high-quality mental health services to criminal offenders, and disseminating research on the assessment and treatment of criminal behavior.

Website: http://ia4cfp.org/
Location: California, USA
Members: 46
Latest Activity: Nov 7, 2012

About the IACFP

The IACFP is an organization of behavioral scientists and practitioners who are concerned with the delivery of high-quality mental health services to criminal offenders, and with promoting and disseminating research on the etiology, assessment and treatment of criminal behavior.

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Sex offenders, effect of treatment on recidivism

I and others in WI-DOC are in the "variable definition" phase of assembling a database of inmates identified as sex offenders. The primary goal is exmine the effect of treatment on recidivism, but we…Continue

Tags: effect, treatment, recidivism, offender, Sex

Started by Bruce R. Erdmann, Ph.D. Apr 4, 2012.

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Criminal Justice & Behavior, official journal of the IACFP

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Comment by Ciara Wild on April 12, 2012 at 9:11: Dear Robert, Thank you for your response. In response to your later suggestions I have an MSc in Forensic Psychology and I am also a Forensic Psychologist in Training working towards my chartership. I have been working as researcher a clinic co-ordinator with counsellors and psychotherapists for 3 years now. Perhaps I wasn't clear in that I would like to gain information about people's experience of therapy in forensic settings if possible. I have already set up and conducted an number of interviews with counsellors in the prison service and hoped that this forum might add some additional information to that already gained. Sadly I have not been able to find evidence for the effectiveness of counselling and psychotherpy in the prison service. Perhaps I am looking in the wrong place and if you have any suggestions to point my in the right direction I would be very grateful.

Comment by Robert J. Powitzky, Ph.D. on April 5, 2012 at 18:34: Hi Ciara. In response to your inquiry about personal experience, in my 40 yrs of experience I have at times experienced a sense of accomplishment and self-fulfillment and at times much grief and frustration. Research: Really, Ciara, if you have to ask this way, please do not create any training until you have formal education, supervised experience and have done adequate literature reviews yourself. Stacks of books and volumes of research exist. List serves are not online post-graduate level courses. Good luck

Comment by Ciara Wild on April 4, 2012 at 14:41: Hi everyone, I wondered if I could ask for help from some of the members of this group. I am writing a piece of training for trainee counsellors and pscyhotherapists looking to take on a placement in a forensic setting. I would like if possible to get people's personal experience on what therapy is like in the prison service, what the role of the therapist is and their responsibilities and if anyone knows of any research looking into the effectiveness of counselling and psychotherapy in these settings and with offenders. Can anyone offer any advice?

Comment by Thomas Mankowski on July 20, 2011 at 17:20: Anyone attending the ACA conference in Florida? http://www.aca.org/Conferences/Summer2011/home.asp

Comment by Thomas Mankowski on March 16, 2011 at 21:06: Has anyone looked at the new IACFP homepage? http://ia4cfp.com

Has a feed for their blog, twitter and CJB.

Comment by Thomas Mankowski on February 14, 2011 at 20:31: FMHAC is coming up next month, is anyone attending?