SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE
Dr. Smith has training and experience in assessing and treating all areas of sexual abuse. Since people and contexts are unique, treatment must be helpful in meeting each person's and family's special needs. Different treatment tracks are available and treatment contracts may include any combination of program steps. Everyone receives treatment that is appropriate for his or her age, developmental stage, and cognitive ability.
Dr. Smith is certified in Kentucky to treat adolescent and adult sex offenders who have been court ordered into treatment. A former clinical member of the Association for the Treatment of Sex Abusers, she has been trained by the most respected and knowledgeable experts in the field. She can provide a comprehensive, individualized assessment and if appropriate, a program of treatment for people who can safely receive treatment in his or her community. Community safety is the number one goal!
Family participation is essential to treatment success. All families will be included and involved in their loved one's program. Effective multi-agency collaboration is also basic in developing a strong program. Dr. Smith works daily with social services, law enforcement, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, child and victim advocates, and corrections officers so that each person enters, progresses, and successfully completes treatment.
RESEARCH
The Glencairn Marriage & Family Therapy Center is interested and actively involved in promoting outpatient mental health research that feeds back into assessment protocols and treatment programs. The goal is to inform treatment based on better practices that are supported by scientific inquiry.
Dr. Smith has collected a large amount of data; one such project involves adolescent boys with sexual aggression problems. Since 1998 Dr. Smith and the staff at Glencairn have treated many boys with sexual behavior problems in a community-based treatment setting. By assessing well over 300 boys referred for sexual aggression problems, Dr. Smith developed an assessment protocol to identify adolescents who were able to be safely treated in the community.
Along with colleagues from Texas Tech University, some of the data have been analyzed. In February 2005 an article titled "Differences in Self-Report Measures by Adolescent Sex Offender Risk Group" authored by Dr. Smith, Dr. Richard Wampler, Dr. Alan Reifman, and Janelle Jones was published in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.
Susan Smith, Richard Wampler, Janelle Jones, and Alan Reifman
Differences in Self-Report Measures by Adolescent Sex Offender Risk Group
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 2005 49: 82-106.
Richard Wampler,
Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Applied and Professional Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1162, USA
Janelle Jones,
Ridgeview Academy (Rite of Passage), 28101 E. Quincy Ave. Watkins, Colorado 80137, USA
Alan Reifman,
Human Development and Family Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1162, USA
Differences in self-reports among three groups of juvenile sex offenders (N = 162) were examined. Risk was defined as the sum of the following static variables based on interviews with juveniles and others and from written records: type of offense (violent or predatory =1, not = 0), prior sex offense (any =1, none = 0), history of sexual abuse (self or family= 1, none = 0), history of substance abuse (self or family =1, none = 0), history of behavior problems (yes =1, no = 0), and unstable home life (yes =1, stable = 0). Low-risk (0 to 2 risk factors), medium-risk (3 factors), and high-risk (4 to 6 factors) groups of offenders were formed. Univariate ANCOVAs indicated that the high-risk group reported less family cohesion, more aggression, lower self-esteem, more social discomfort, and more frequent and extreme sexual fantasies. The implications of these findings for differential identification of and interventions with adolescent sex offenders are discussed.
Key Words: adolescents * aggressive sexuality * sexual abuse * juvenile sexual offenders * rape * children * assessment * treatment
CONSULTATION, FORENSICS AND WORKSHOPS
In addition to her direct work assessing and treating children, adolescents and adults who have problems with sexually offensive behaviors, Dr. Smith also offers many types of consultation, court work and training.
Dr. Smith is available to review your inpatient/outpatient treatment program needs, provide program feedback to managements, and to provide staff training on ways to improve services. She also consults with defense attorneys on client's risk and treatment needs, provides assessments, and objective reports at the pleasure of the court. Second opinion assessment is a common part of her routine work.
Dr. Smith's Juvenile Sex Offender Risk Assessment Training is based on her research with adolescents who have sexually offended. She has developed a scientifically sound method of distinguishing boys who can safely be treated in the community. Her assessment process can also be used in developing a unique treatment plan for a specific adolescent.
Training is currently offered in the form of live workshops. Dr. Smith is in the process of developing other forms of training including multimedia CD training courses and DVD's. When these become available they will be advertised on this site.
For information about Consultation, Forensics and Workshops please call 859.263.4687 or e-mail us at dr.smith@glencairnmft.com
TRAINING SITE
Glencairn Marriage & Family Therapy Center is a CO-AAMFT Supervision Site and a Family Therapy Intern Training Site for the University of Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky University. Dr. Smith is an AAMFT approved supervisor.
The following is a list of students who have interned at Glencairn Center :
Tiffany Mushegan 1999
Ian Feinhauer 2000
Kay Bradshaw 2000
Nicole Moore 2001
Leontyne Gulley 2001
Jamie Stumbo 2002
Stacie Self 2002
Anna Ford 2003
Garnetta Nichol 2004
Jessica Grace 2006
Erika Lynne Eyre 2004-06
Ellie Collier 2007
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