Re: Motivation as a tool

The MSI-II is normed on admitted sex offenders, and thus would

have no bearing whatsoever on the question of veracity of offense

commission in someone denying guilt. The Abel is a quasi-exper-

imental "test" of sexual interest (measures stimuli comparative

viewing time) and says nothing about acting out potential or past

behavior. (All psychophysiological measures have notoriously

high error rates.)

Kirk Witherspoon, PhD

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----- Original Message -----

From: DeanTong@xxxxxxx

To: Child Maltreatment Researchers

Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:55 AM

Subject: Re: Motivation as a tool

When you allude to motivation as a tool for some sex offender typologies who aren't prepared to accept their diagnosis I assume you mean that same are in psychological denial. I'd be curious to know if these same sex offenders were pre-tested via the MSI-II (Multiphasic Sex Inventory) and/or AASI (Abel Screen) and depicted via Denier - Dissimulator scores they were in fact in denial and were positive for cognitive distortions.

In a message dated 1/8/2004 10:38:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, ken-little@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

The alcohol treatment literature refers to pre-motivational treatment groupings. This is descriptive of individuals who are not currently prepared to accept that they have an issue with alcohol. Some sex-offender groupings may be done this way as well.

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