Quiz: Providing Treatment to People Who Categorically Deny Their Sexual Offending Behavior

(OT300-A) Quiz: Providing Treatment to People Who Categorically Deny Their Sexual Offending Behavior

Training Title: Providing Treatment to People Who Categorically Deny Their Sexual Offending Behavior

This exam contains 15 questions. In order to receive credit, you MUST answer at least 12 questions correctly. You may attempt the quiz as many times as you’d like.

1. Guilt involves condemning a specific behavior, while shame involves a global negative evaluation of the self. Which of these emotional responses is considered a motivator for change?
2. A person claims they were falsely accused, asserting it was a case of mistaken identity or retribution by the alleged victim. This pattern best fits which type of denial?
3. The recommended approach with people in categorical denial is to avoid challenging the offense and instead help clients address the factors that led others to believe they were capable of offending. The therapeutic goal is to help them:
4. True or false? Research by Harkins found that among people assessed as high risk who have sexually offended, those who denied their offending were actually at lower risk to reoffend than those who did not deny.
5. Research into the function of denial found that people in categorical denial, compared to those who admitted their offenses, tended to have:
6. A person uses alcohol to cope with emotional distress, which temporarily reduces their discomfort but ultimately leads to additional problems. This pattern is an example of which type of self-regulation failure?
7. To help a person move from shame to guilt, a recommended therapeutic strategy is to:
8. If the goal is to reduce denial and minimization in treatment, research suggests the most effective approach is to:
9. Research on excuse-making among people who have committed offenses of all types has found that those who make excuses for their behavior are:
10. In the Categorical Deniers Program, empathy exercises are modified so that participants:
11. True or false? Denial is classified as one of the recognized criminogenic factors for people who have sexually offended.
12. The Marshall Memory Method is based on the principle that memory functions through spreading activation. The technique involves having the person:
13. In the recommended triage approach, a person who partially denies aspects of their offense but agrees to participate in treatment should be placed in:
14. Research found that a significant proportion of treatment resistance could be reduced through which strategy?
15. One of the challenges identified in running a categorical deniers program is that participants initially tend to: