Sexual abuse seminar from Canadian expert

The seminar was organised by the Centre for Consultation and Supervision at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work and was opened by Professor Gabriel Kiely. A native of Perth, Australia, Professor Marshall is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Queen’s University, Ontario, and is a director of the Sexual Offenders Programme at Bath Institution, Ontario. 

He has been instrumental in establishing several prison and community treatment programmes for sexual offenders in Canada and in six other countries. He is an active clinician and researcher who has over 190 publications, including 40 book chapters and five books, with most of this work dealing with sexual offenders. 

The first workshop of the seminar, At the ‘Cold’ Face: Providing a Therapeutic Service to Men who have Perpetrated Sexualised Offences, was aimed at experienced practitioners who are currently or who hope to be in the future providing a front line therapeutic service to sexual offenders. The emphasis was largely on process variables in treatment. 

The second workshop - Men who have Sexually Abused: Thoughts on Twenty Years of Accomplishment and what lies ahead - was aimed at those who are involved in the care of or working with people who have engaged in sexual abuse.