Applying the Good Lives Model to the Case Management of Sexual Offenders
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Training Description
Tony Ward developed the Good Lives Model a decade ago. He and his co-authors, Mayumi Purvis and Simone Shaw, were part of the team that implemented a specialist case management model for sexual offenders at Corrections Victoria in Australia. The book is based upon that foundation of practical experience. The authors explain the core theories, principles and practices they believe should drive the case management of sexual offenders.
Please note: GIFR is the sole Continuing Education Credit provider for this CE Program. However, we do not provide the book. The book can be purchased directly from the publisher, Safer Society Press. To purchase this book, visit: https://safersocietypress.org/store/applying-good-lives-model-case-management/
Editor Biographies
Mayumi Purvis, PhD, is a criminologist, independent consultant, researcher, and honorary fellow at the University of Melbourne, School of Social and Political Sciences (criminology). She co-lectures a post-graduate course in sexual offender management at the University of Melbourne and delivers ongoing training to correctional staff in areas such as sexual offender management, vicarious trauma and self-care, staff mentoring, professional boundaries, and the Good Lives model (GLM). During her time in corrections, her most notable achievement was the development and implementation of a sex offender specialist case management model into Community Correctional Services, Corrections Victoria, Australia, which was the first of its kind to implement the GLM into case management practices.
Tony Ward, PhD, DipClinPsyc, is currently a professor in clinical psychology and the director of clinical training at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has taught clinical and forensic psychology at the universities of Melbourne, Canterbury, and Deakin, he is a professorial fellow at the universities of Birmingham and Kent, and he is a member of the respective forensic centers at Carelton University and Portsmouth University. He has authored over 340 academic publications and his major research interests include desistance and reintegration processes in offenders, cognition and evolutionary approaches to crime, and ethical issues in forensic and correctional psychology. Tony is the architect of the Good Lives model and has directed GLM-based research and published numerous books, book chapters, and academic articles on this model since 2002.
Simone Shaw, MPsych, is a forensic psychologist, consultant and associate of the University of Melbourne, Commercial Ltd. She has many years of experience in the assessment, treatment, and management of male and female violent offenders and high risk sexual offenders in both prisons and community. She has worked in senior management positions within correctional systems, supervising and training psychological and allied-health staff in the treatment and management of sexual offenders, including managing the Sex Offender Program in Victoria, Australia.
Learning Objectives
This training is designed to help you:
- Discuss the benefits of integrating the GLM into sexual offender case management
- Describe the Good Lives Model of offender rehabilitation
- Explain the relationship between the GLM and desistance theory
- Describe the self-regulation model of relapse prevention
- Outline the GLM approach to eliciting and managing disclosures from sexual offenders
- List and define the GLM's 11 PMGs (primary human goods)
