Toward a comprehensive theory of child sexual abuse: A theory knitting perspective

By Tony Ward, R. Siegert. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health

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In Clinical Psychology

1. A. Beech
2. Tony Ward
3. Theresa A. Gannon
4. R. Mann
5. Leam A. Craig
6. D. Thornton
7. K. Browne
8. I. Elliott

In Health

1. Theresa A. Gannon
2. A. Beech
3. Tony Ward
4. Mark W. Baldwin
5. K. Nunes
6. P. Firestone
7. I. Elliott
8. J. McCarthy

Citations in the corpus

• Indirect Assessment of Cognitions of Child Sexual Abusers With the Implicit Association Test (2007, methodology): “In addition to self-report methods, researchers have used more indirect techniques, such as PPG, that may reflect cognitions regarding sexual attractiveness (Ward & Siegert, 2002).”
• The Relationship of Statistical and Psychological Risk Markers to Sexual Reconviction in Child Molesters (2007, methodology): “The Beech and Ward (2004) model seeks to bridge the gap between the empirically supported deviancy domains described in the SRA model (Thornton, 2002) and the theoretical pathways to sexual offending described by Ward and Siegert (2002).”
• The role of cognitive distortions in paedophilic offending: Internet and contact offenders compared (2007, background): “According to Ward and Siegert (2002), there are different pathways to offending against children.”
• Sexual coping, general coping and cognitive distortions in incarcerated rapists and child molesters (2005, background): “…Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers DOI: 10.1080/13552600500073657 Theories of sexual offending (Finkelhor, 1984; Marshall & Barbaree, 1990; Pithers, 1990; Hall & Hirschman, 1991; Ward & Siegert, 2002) propose that sexual offending is facilitated by beliefs that support such behaviour.”
• Sex offenders, internet child abuse images and emotional avoidance: The importance of values. (2006, background): “A recent study by Middleton, Beech and Mandevill-Norden (2004), examining the psychological profiles of Internet pornography users, based their analysis on the pathways model by Ward and Siegert (2002) of child sexual abuse.”
• The multi-trajectory theory of adult firesetting (M-TTAF) (2012, background): “Components of a Successful Theory: Theory Evaluation The required features of a successful theory in forensic psychology (see Ward & Siegert, 2002) include: 1.”
• Assessing female sexual offenders’ motivations and cognitions: an exploratory study (2009, background): “…the subject of much debate in recent years, as they have been identified as both ‘giving the offender permission to offend’ and as such are causative (Ward & Siegert, 2002), and also have been described as arising post-offence to ‘make the offender feel better about the offence’ by justifying,…”
• Internet sexual activity: A comparison between contact and non-contact child pornography offenders (2010, background): “…that is best explained by considering various stable dispositional, transitory dispositional and situational factors (Finkelhor, 1984; Marshall & Barbaree, 1990; Marshall, Serran & Marshall, 2006; Smallbone et al., 2008; Ward & Siegert, 2002; Ward et al., 2006; Wortley & Smallbone, 2006).”
• Sexual grooming of children: Review of literature and theoretical considerations (2006, background): “Ward and Siegert's ( 2002 ) model is based on the dysfunction of one or more psychological mechanisms—emotional regulation, intimacy deficits, cognitive distortions and sexual arousal (deviant sexual scripts).”
• An investigation into the applicability of the Ward and Siegert Pathways Model of child sexual abuse with Internet offenders (2006, methodology): “Keywords: Internet offenders, Pathways Model, child pornography”