{"id":1935,"date":"2019-08-21T09:43:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2019-10-02T12:40:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T11:40:02","slug":"treatment-for-sexual-domestic-violence-offenders-does-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2019\/08\/21\/treatment-for-sexual-domestic-violence-offenders-does-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Treatment for sexual and domestic violence offenders does work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A first-of-its-kind study has found that specialised psychological programmes for sexual and domestic violence offenders have led to major reductions in reoffending but best results are achieved with consistent input from a qualified psychologist.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, which was led by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/226\/gannon-theresa\">Professor Theresa Gannon<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\">School of Psychology<\/a>, a team of psychologists from the UK and Canada reviewed\u00a0<strong>70 previous studies and 55,000 individual offenders<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>from five countries<\/strong>\u00a0(UK, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand) to examine whether specialised psychological offence treatments were associated with\u00a0<strong>reductions in recidivism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The study showed that, across all programmes, offence specific reoffending was\u00a0<strong>13.4% for treated individuals<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>19.4% for untreated comparisons<\/strong>\u00a0over an average follow up of 66\u202fmonths. Relative reductions in offence specific reoffending were\u00a0<strong>32.6% for sexual offence programmes<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>36% for domestic violence programmes<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>24.3% for general violence programmes<\/strong>. All programmes were also associated with significant reductions in non-offence specific reoffending.<\/p>\n<p>However, overall,\u00a0<strong>treatment effectiveness appeared improved<\/strong>\u00a0when programmes received consistent hands-on input from a\u00a0<strong>qualified registered psychologist<\/strong>\u00a0and facilitating staff were provided with\u00a0<strong>clinical supervision<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Gannon, a chartered forensic psychologist and Director of Kent\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/core-fp\/\">Centre of Research and Education in Forensic Psychology<\/a>, said: \u2018The results of this study are\u00a0<strong>good news<\/strong>. They suggest that treatment can be effective; particularly if\u00a0<strong>care and attention<\/strong>\u00a0is paid to who delivers the treatment as well as how treatment is implemented.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The full press release is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/23122\/treatment-for-sexual-domestic-violence-offenders-does-work\">available via the Kent News Centre<\/a>. The study, entitled \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0272735818303295#!\">Does specialized psychological treatment for offending reduce recidivism? A meta-analysis examining staff and program variables as predictors of treatment effectiveness<\/a>\u2019 (Theresa A. Gannon, University of Kent; Mark E. Olver, University of Saskatchewan; Jaimee S. Mallion, Kent; Mark James, Kent), is published in\u00a0<strong><em>Clinical Psychology Review<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A first-of-its-kind study has found that specialised psychological programmes for sexual and domestic violence offenders have led to major reductions in reoffending but best results &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2019\/08\/21\/treatment-for-sexual-domestic-violence-offenders-does-work\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55574,"featured_media":1936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140633,3684,70,1],"tags":[140632],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}