A Practical Guide for Probation Officers, Parole Officers,
and Case Managers
by Mayumi Purvis, Tony Ward, & Simone Shaw
- Download the Table of Contents and a sample chapter.
- Download forms for use with the GLM for Case Management.
This book is about the case management of sexual offenders. It aims to explain how the Good Lives Model (GLM) can be effectively incorporated into case management work with sexual offenders and therefore forms a theoretical and practical guide for those correctional workers who wish to do so.
The authors helped implement a specialist case management model for sexual offenders at Corrections Victoria, Australia in 2008. From the very beginning, the organization was committed to the thorough and correct application of the GLM. On an ongoing basis, the authors have been working to constantly build and refine the GLM case management approach, based on the feedback and needs of Correction Victoria’s specialist case managers. This means that more than four years of theoretical and practical work has gone into the development of a GLM case management approach. The authors now feel that these practices, techniques, and tools should be shared with a wider audience. As such, the purpose of this book is to explain the core theories, principles, and practices that the authors believe should drive the case management of sexual offenders.
For a general overview of the Good Lives Model, visit Tony Ward’s GLM website.
About the Authors
Mayumi Purvis, Ph.D.
Dr. Purvis is a criminologist, independent consultant, researcher and Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne, School of Social and Political Sciences (Criminology). Her Ph.D. research was essentially the first empirical research on the Good Lives Model, testing the theory’s etiological assumptions. During her time in Corrections working in senior officer and management positions, her most notable achievement was the development and implementation of a sex offender Specialist Case Management Model into Community Correctional Services, which was the first of its kind to operationalize the Good Lives Model into case management practices. She has over 15 years of practical experience in the correctional setting.
Tony Ward, Ph.D., DipClinPsyc
Dr. Ward is a clinical psychologist by training and is currently Professor of Clinical Psychology at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He has previously taught clinical and forensic psychology at the Universities of Canterbury, Melbourne, and Deakin. His research interests are primarily centered around the area of offender rehabilitation, cognition in sex offenders, and ethical issues in forensic practice. He developed the Good Lives Model and has over 340 academic publications. His most recently published books are Desistance from Sex Offending: Alternatives to Throwing Away the Keys, coauthored with Richard Las (Guilford Press, 2011) and Applying the Good Lives and Self-Regulation Models to Sex Offender Treatment, coauthored with Pamela Yates and David Prescott (Safer Society Press, 2010).
Simone Shaw, M.A.
Ms. Shaw is a Consultant Forensic Psychologist who has over 15 years of clinical experience with Australian correctional agencies. She has held several senior clinical and management positions within Corrections. She currently lectures on the management of sexual offenders to post-graduate students at the University of Melbourne: Specialist Certificate in Criminology (Sexual Offender Management) Program. She also provides training in the management and treatment of sexual offenders to correctional staff for the Corrections Victoria Department of Justice, Victoria, New Zealand.
More Information
More information about the Good Lives Model and the authors of this book is available at www.goodlivesmodel.com. You can also view a ten minute video introduction of the Good Lives Model and its application to treatment of people with sexual behavior problems presented by Tony Ward here.
Advance Praise
The authors have succeeded in presenting us with a clear, comprehensive, cutting-edge roadmap for how to provide case management services for sex offenders based on the good lives model. It balances the importance of risk management with the imperative of helping individuals develop prosocial attitudes and skills in order to lead a ‘good life’ that is incompatible with offending. This practical guide is an essential resource for probation officers, parole officers, and case managers.
— Robert McGrath, MA, Clinical Director, Vermont Treatment Program for Sexual Abusers