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Speakers day 2.

Kelly Babchishin

 

Kelly Babchishin, Ph.D. is a Banting postdoctoral fellow at the Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research (University of Ottawa) and the Karolinska Instute in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Babchishin is also the Director of Research Development and member of the International Workgroup on Best Practice in the Management of Online Sex Offending (sponsored by OnlinePROTECT).

Kelly’s current research involves identifying causal candidates for the onset of sexual offending. She has published on online sexual offending, risk assessment for sexual offenders, and characteristics of incest offenders.

 

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Liam E. Marshall

 

Liam E. Marshall, Ph.D., has been providing treatment and conducting research on sexual and other offenders for two decades. He has many publications, including four books, and has made numerous international conference presentations on offender and mental health issues. He has delivered trainings for therapists who work with sexual and violent offenders in 17 countries worldwide. Liam is a board member and reviewer for a number of international journals. He is currently a consultant and trainer with Rockwood Psychological Services and a Researcher and Clinician at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care.

 

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EMILY ROTHMAN

 

 

Dr. Emily F. Rothman is an Associate Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, and a visiting scientist at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, both located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.  She earned her doctorate in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004, and since that time has been conducting research on sexual and partner violence, sex trafficking, and pornography.  Her research has been funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Justice (NIJ), and other entities.  She has published more than 47 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, authored four book chapters, one report for the World Health Organization on batterer intervention programs, and has worked with representatives of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on an initiative designed to prevent first-time sexual violence perpetration.  Before becoming a research scientist, Dr. Rothman worked as an advocate in a battered women’s shelter, a volunteer counselor on a rape crisis telephone hotline, and as a counselor in a batterer intervention program for perpetrators of intimate partner violence. Dr. Rothman makes frequent contributions to newsmedia.  

 

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Kevin Creeden

 

Kevin Creeden, M.A., LMHC is the Director of Assessment and Research at the Whitney Academy in East Freetown, MA. He has over 30 years of clinical experience treating children, adolescents, adults and families working extensively with sexually and physically aggressive youth.  Over the past 25 years, his primary focus has been on issues of trauma and attachment difficulties, especially with regard to the neurological impact of trauma on behavior and he has authored several articles and book chapters on the     neuro-developmental impact of trauma on sexual behavior problems.  In the past, Mr. Creeden has served as the president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), a Teaching Fellow at Boston College, an Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at Cambridge Hospital, and a guest faculty at the Boston University School of Social Work.  Presently, he is a guest faculty at the Simmons School of Social Work Advanced Training Program in Trauma-Focused Treatment.  Mr. Creeden trains and consults both nationally and internationally to youth service, community, forensic services and mental health service agencies.

 

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Mark Olver

 

Mark Olver, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Registered Doctoral Psychologist (Saskatchewan, Canada), and Director of Clinical Psychology Training at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, where he is involved in program administration, graduate and undergraduate teaching, research, and clinical training. Prior to his academic appointment, Dr. Olver worked as a clinical psychologist in various capacities, including providing assessment, treatment, and consultation services to young offenders in the Saskatoon Health Region and with adult federal offenders in the Correctional Service of Canada. Dr. Olver’s research interests include offender risk assessment and treatment, young offenders, psychopathy, and the evaluation of therapeutic change. He is the co-developer of the Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offender version (VRS-SO) and he provides training and consultation services internationally in the assessment and treatment of sexual, violent, and psychopathic offenders. 

 

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WILLIAM L. MARSHALL

 

WIlliam L. Marshall is an emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, and past Director of Rockwood Psychological Services. Bill has provided treatment and research with sex offenders for over 45 years and is the author of over 400 publiications including 21 books. He has received numerous awards the most significant of which was his appointment in 2006 as an Officer of the Order of Canada which is the highest honor a Canadian citizen can receive.

 

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Theresa A. Gannon

 

Theresa A. Gannon, DPhil, CPsychol (Forensic) is Professor of Forensic Psychology and Director of the Centre for Research and Education in Forensic Psychology (CORE-FP) at the University of Kent, UK. Theresa also works as a Practitioner Consultant Forensic Psychologist for Kent Forensic Psychiatry Services, UK. Theresa has published over 100 chapters, articles, books, and other scholarly works in the areas of male and female sexual offending, firesetting, and offender rehabilitation. Theresa assesses and treats males and females who have sexually offended regularly and is lead-editor of a Wiley-Blackwell book examining females who sexually offend (Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment: Wiley-Blackwell 2010).

Theresa serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Aggression and Violent Behavior, British Journal of Forensic Practice, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, and Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. Theresa is also  Editor of Psychology Crime and Law.

 

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Conor Duggan

 

Conor Duggan BSc, PhD, MD, FRCPsych, OBE is Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham in the UK and Head of Research and Development at Partnerships in Care. He was until recently an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Arnold Lodge, Regional Secure Unit in Leicester UK where he shared responsibility for a 22-bedded in-patient unit that treats men with personality disorder and a history of serious offending. His research interests are treatment efficacy in personality disordered offenders, their long-term course and the neuropsychological basis of psychopathy. He has been responsible for several Cochrane Reviews in the treatment of personality disorder and sex offending. He has written over 150 peer reviewed papers and book chapters. He was until recently Editor of The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology and chaired a NICE Guidance Committee on Antisocial personality Disorder. In 2012, he was awarded an OBE for his services to mental health.

 

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