What happens during EMDR therapy, does not (always) stay in EMDR therapy
For therapeutic settings, memory distortion(s) due to eye movements might not be an important question, because the main aim of therapy is to help the patient’s mental health. However, EMDR-therapists work with autobiographical memory. It is therefore important that they are aware of the reconstructive nature of memory.
Indeed and Without Doubt
It wasn’t until much later that DNA evidence recovered in 1992 would lead to the exoneration of both Brooks in 2001 and Brewer in 2008. This DNA belonged to Justin Albert Johnson, who confessed to both crimes but denied having bitten either girl. This statement is consistent with Dr. Souviron’s conclusion about the marks not being bitemarks as well. Rather, as it turns out, the marks found on the girls’ bodies were insect bites.
How Swiss Cheese can explain tragedies
Catastrophic events like the sinking of the MV Sewol call for an explanation and people tend to look for someone to blame. Blaming individuals is easy and emotionally satisfying. Yet, sometimes it helps to see the flaws of a system as a whole. It is necessary to acknowledge the danger of falling prey to hindsight bias when judging foreseeability and responsibility in retrospect.
Taking a chance with chances
The investigators’ line of reasoning was based on the assumption that for the bite marks on the body and the ones produced by Krone on the Styrofoam to match, they must come from the same source. This is called the assumption of individualization. However, this assumption leads to fallacious thinking.
Bias? - Thanks, I’ll pass! I am an expert.
Judge Shawn, a higher being tasked to determine the fate of the main character, develops a protective cocoon each time an emotional, rather than factual, argument is raised by the parties. Unlike him, earthlings are not perfect creatures and cannot hide within a sheath when confronted with biased thinking. But why is the idea of a bias-free expert so appealing?
Sharing risk assessment implementation practices with Lithuanian colleagues.
On February 14, 2020, a symposium titled ‘Predicting behavior of delinquent adolescents based on risk and protective factors’ took place in Vilnius, Lithuania. I was invited to talk about my doctoral research which deals with the implementation of the Short-term Assessment of Risk and Treatability: Adolescent Version (START:AV; Viljoen et al., 2014), a risk assessment instrument for adolescents. Here is my story.
The relationship between insight and violence in psychosis: implications for forensic practitioners
For forensic practitioners the propensity for individuals with psychosis to behave violently is a sensitive and much debated subject. Violent behaviour by a minority of individuals who experience psychosis is a poorly understood phenomenon that contributes to the stigma experienced by such persons.
De rode vlaggen van therapie: Hervonden herinneringen cursus voor therapeuten
In september 2017 was de Vlaamse schrijfster Griet Op de Beeck tafelgast bij De Wereld Draait Door om haar nieuwe boek te promoten. Op de Beeck vertelde dat ze tijdens psychotherapie ontdekt heeft dat ze een incestslachtoffer is.
Big data in the courtroom: Bug or Feature?
Big data and machine learning will arrive within the judicial system along one of these paths, it is upon legal professionals, legal psychologists, and data scientists; to make sure it does so along the right one and head towards a bright future.