Very little is known regarding noncompletion of sex offender
treatment among sex offenders with serious psychiatric illness. The purpose of
the study was to identify factors predictive of treatment noncompletion in a
forensic psychiatric sample of 156 adult male sex offenders.
All data were coded from archival client medical records.
Variables of interest, including indicators of historical risk and clinical
diagnoses made by hospital psychiatrists, were entered into both a linear
regression equation with percentage of groups attended over two years as a
continuous variable and a logistic regression equation for predicting more or
less than 50% sex offender treatment group attendance.
Significant predictors of treatment noncompletion included
number of arrests, recent physical aggression, length of admission, and
diagnoses of borderline personality disorder, psychosis, and intellectual
impairments.
The resulting predictors indicate a combination of relevant
variables for psychiatric sex offenders, combining both criminal risk and
clinical risk indicators. Suggested reasons for these findings and implications
for predicting treatment noncompletion by psychiatric sex offenders are
discussed.
By: Stinson JD1.
1Dr. Stinson is with the Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City
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