What Works for Children’s Social Care head of practice, Anna Bacchoo, discusses child protection plans and asks how they could be more effective. The blog describes a new approach to creating plans in conferences and network meetings developed by Warrington Borough Council which aims to share responsibility for plans more effectively across the network and support parents to set achievable goals. The blog invites social workers to get in touch with views on the type of study which could explore how effective child protection plans are, for whom and in what circumstances.
Read the blog: Could we be doing more to improve child protection plans?
Category: Online Reports
Can Bad Men Change? What It’s Like Inside Sex Offender Therapy
A look at group therapy within a prison in the USA.
If arrested for computer crime, what happens
A light to read account of what happens should the police arrive to arrest you for any crime that involves using computers.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/07/feature_what_happens_when_you_arrested_by_computer_police/
Life after receiving a conviction for a sexual offence
In the online publication ‘theRecord’ run by unlock this short account gives the negative impact of a conviction for indecent images of children.
How child sexual abuse is tackled around the world. BBCNewsbeat.
From the Topic LiMovfe.
After Indonesia passed controversial laws in 2016 authorising chemical castration which the Indonesian Doctors Association called unethical, this short article looks at the position of other countries (Russia, Poland, South Korea, Germany, Uk and Czech Rebublic) at that time
Women Moving Millions: Dr. Gail Dines Takes on the Porn Industry & Launches Online Program for Parents.
Dr. Gail Dines, the founder of Culture Reframed, is a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston. Her TEDx talk provides an introduction to her work. (http://www.seejanedo.com/women-moving-millions-dr-gail-dines-takes-on-the-porn-industry-launches-online-program-for-parents/)
What are the Best Protective Software Programs for Recovering Sex, Porn, and Love Addicts? Robert Weiss.
This blog looks at some of the accountability software available which reports online activity to a named person, some use filters, some reporting with alerts if unsuitable material is viewed or there is an attempt to uninstall something.
Pornography Addiction and Perceived Addiction. Gary Wilson. 2017
Gary Wilson explains the science behind the effects of pornography on the brain and body, how addiction is developed, and the misleading idea of “perceived addiction.” Gary is the force behind yourbrainonporn.com, and TEDx presenter of “The Great Porn Experiment, 2012” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU).
A Mind Map for Sex and Porn Addiction. Paula Hall. 2015.
A simple explanation of the effect of dopamine on the brain and enforcement of neural pathways through use during an addiction and how this has to be overcome in recovery.
Psychologists are working on a fraud-proof brain scan test of deviant sexual interest.
Christian Jarrett. Research Digest.
Functional MRIs can be used to map the sexual interest of participants. In this research images are presented that are not consciously recognised due to their short duration and ‘masking’ by the use of a longer distracting image. However, the image time is sufficient to show the pattern of activity which occurs with sexual interest. Deviant sexual interest is one of the strongest predictors of future offences – but this research also raises important ethical questions.