Dummy’s Guide to Risk Reduction for Sex Offenders
For human beings, there are two primary classes of constraints against doing wrong or bad: intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic constraints focus on the offender’s internalized norms, conscience, empathy capacity, impulse control, and ability to foresee and be constrained by anticipated consequences of the offense behavior. Intrinsic constraints against offending behavior may be weakened through the […]
Psychology and the Human Condition III (last)
So what does psychology contribute to our understanding of the human condition? What does psychology contribute to our understanding of solutions to human problems? Better, how does psychology address your understanding of the human situation? Very little I fear. I often use the term “human predicament,” but this carries the critical supposition that there is something […]
Internship Matches
Another piece of our 2010 HPA presentation on training and workforce issues in professional psychology concerned how well local training programs are preparing graduates for two career hurdles: internship selection and the passing the Examination for Professional Practice in Hawaii (EPPP). I’ll present the numbers in two separate posts and let everyone give them their […]
Bias
Occasionally, after I have completed an evaluation and proffered an opinion, a party accuses me of “bias.” I think this means they disagree with my opinion. Most people cannot define “bias” very well. Karen Franklin defines bias very nicely in her Feedblitz forensic psychology blog. I quote her below: The term bias refers to a […]