COGNITIVE-AFFECTIVE PROCESSES OF OFFENDING:
FROM ASSESSMENT TO TREATMENT

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CHAIR: Steven Gillespie (University of Liverpool)
Gillespie, S.M. (University of Liverpool)– Psychological test data from 2,245 participants of a U.K. sex offender treatment programme suggest five latent profiles
Tiberi, L. (UMONS) , Vicenzutto, A., Saloppé, X., Mancini, & Pham T.H.- Multi-channel emotion recognition among forensic inpatients: Exploratory associations between face, prosody, semantic and body posture sensitivity using Signal Detection Theory.
Vicenzutto, A. (UMONS) Tiberi, L., Lefebvre, L. & Pham, T.H. - Executive functions and risk of violent behavior: Which links? An exploratory study among a forensic inpatients’ sample.

: Dr Steven M. Gillespie is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Research Director at the Department of Primary Care & Mental Health (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom). Dr Gillespie’s research is at the intersection of clinical and forensic psychology. He has published widely on attention and physiological reactivity to social and affective cues, the association of cognitive and affective processes with psychopathic personality and aggressive and antisocial behaviors (including sexual violence), and the treatment given to offenders with a focus on improving emotion regulation (e.g., the use of mindfulness techniques). Dr Gillespie is the recipient of several grants from research councils in the UK to fund his research with people in prions who have personality disorders or who have committed sexual and violent offences. He has been invited to present his work internationally and sits on the Editorial Board for the journal Sexual Abuse.