Richard Wollert
Biographic Data
| ID | 191258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Wollert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Wollert |
| SIGNATURE | WOLLERT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Paraphilic Coercive Disorder Does Not Belong in DSM-5 for Statistical, Historical, Conceptual, and Practical Reasons
Poor diagnostic reliability, the Null-Bayes Logic Model, and their implications for sexually violent predator evaluations
Forensic psychologists have approached sexually violent predator (SVP) civil commitment evaluations from the position that respondents must be positive for a condition from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association to be classified as SVPs. The only research on DSM diagnostic reliability in SVP cases has been undertaken by J. S. Levenson (2004a) and R. L. Packard and J. Levenson (2006)…
Low base rates limit expert certainty when current actuarials are used to identify sexually violent predators
The author applied Bayes’s theorem to agewise sexual recidivism rates and the accuracy of high actuarial scores for predicting sexual recidivism in civil commit-ment cases. Recidivism rates consistently declined with age, paralleling the age-invariance pattern found for other offenders. Furthermore, actuarials were efficient for only the youngest group, were inaccurate for identifying recidivists, and mis-classified many nonrecidivists as recidiv…
An evaluation of a communications training program within a self-help group for sexually abusive families
Self-help clearing-houses in North America
Self-help groups hold the potential for helping many people adjust to health difficulties and life stresses. Self-help clearing-houses represent a community-centred approach to developing and realizing this potential. Several papers describing specific clearing-houses have been published, but a comprehensive survey of these organizations has not yet been completed. This article reports the results of such a survey, in which a majority of existing…
The self‐help clearinghouse concept
Many clearinghouses have been organized within the last decade to promote mutual aid and to provide referral information about self-help groups to potential members. Few of the assumptions that underpin the operation of these programs have been evaluated, however. This paper presents an evaluation of the Self-Help Information Service, a clearinghouse integrated with a generic information and referral service. The results were generally positive w…
Concurrent and longitudinal patterns among sanctions, mood, and attributions
Fat Group
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Nancy Barron, Lucia Eakins, Richard Wollert; Fat Group: A SNAP-Launched Self-Help Group for Overweight Women. Human Organization 1 March 1984; 43 (1): 44–49. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.43.1.nl6712w258831205 Download citation file:…
Causal attributions, sanctions, and normal mood variations
The causal-locus hypothesis (CLH) asserts that persons making internal attributions for failure and external attributions for success experience more negative postoutcome moods than persons making the opposite attributions. Three experiments assessed the CLH. Although outcomes consistently affected moods and attributions, attributions did not affect moods. Significant correlations consistent with the CLH were also infrequently obtained. Another t…
Self‐help groups
The emergence of self-help groups as an important source of help-giving for persons with psychological problems has occurred without a systematic attempt to tap an important source of information about this phenomenon: the members themselves. Eighty members of nine self-help groups were surveyed. The results of this study suggest that self-help groups serve a different population than do professional therapists, that the help-giving processes are…
Expectancy shifts and the expectancy confidence hypothesis
A survey of sexual attitude reassessment and restructuring seminars
The results of a survey of 11 directors of sexual attitude reassessment and sexual attitude restructuring seminars, both referred to as SARs, are summarized and reviewed. SARs were found to be similar with respect to their program titles, sponsoring agencies, client populations, and goals. Differences between SARs were found concerning the degree of control exercised by leaders, emphasis on attitude change, and participation pressure. It was conc…
Self‐help groups
The emergence of self-help groups as an important source of help-giving for persons with psychological problems has occurred without a systematic attempt to tap an important source of information about this phenomenon: the members themselves. Eighty members of nine self-help groups were surveyed. The results of this study suggest that self-help groups serve a different population than do professional therapists, that the help-giving processes are…
Paraphilic Coercive Disorder Does Not Belong in DSM-5 for Statistical, Historical, Conceptual, and Practical Reasons
Poor diagnostic reliability, the Null-Bayes Logic Model, and their implications for sexually violent predator evaluations
Forensic psychologists have approached sexually violent predator (SVP) civil commitment evaluations from the position that respondents must be positive for a condition from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association to be classified as SVPs. The only research on DSM diagnostic reliability in SVP cases has been undertaken by J. S. Levenson (2004a) and R. L. Packard and J. Levenson (2006)…
Low base rates limit expert certainty when current actuarials are used to identify sexually violent predators
The author applied Bayes’s theorem to agewise sexual recidivism rates and the accuracy of high actuarial scores for predicting sexual recidivism in civil commit-ment cases. Recidivism rates consistently declined with age, paralleling the age-invariance pattern found for other offenders. Furthermore, actuarials were efficient for only the youngest group, were inaccurate for identifying recidivists, and mis-classified many nonrecidivists as recidiv…
A survey of sexual attitude reassessment and restructuring seminars
The results of a survey of 11 directors of sexual attitude reassessment and sexual attitude restructuring seminars, both referred to as SARs, are summarized and reviewed. SARs were found to be similar with respect to their program titles, sponsoring agencies, client populations, and goals. Differences between SARs were found concerning the degree of control exercised by leaders, emphasis on attitude change, and participation pressure. It was conc…
The self‐help clearinghouse concept
Many clearinghouses have been organized within the last decade to promote mutual aid and to provide referral information about self-help groups to potential members. Few of the assumptions that underpin the operation of these programs have been evaluated, however. This paper presents an evaluation of the Self-Help Information Service, a clearinghouse integrated with a generic information and referral service. The results were generally positive w…
Expectancy shifts and the expectancy confidence hypothesis
A survey of sexual attitude reassessment and restructuring seminars
The results of a survey of 11 directors of sexual attitude reassessment and sexual attitude restructuring seminars, both referred to as SARs, are summarized and reviewed. SARs were found to be similar with respect to their program titles, sponsoring agencies, client populations, and goals. Differences between SARs were found concerning the degree of control exercised by leaders, emphasis on attitude change, and participation pressure. It was conc…
Expectancy shifts and the expectancy confidence hypothesis
Self‐help groups
The emergence of self-help groups as an important source of help-giving for persons with psychological problems has occurred without a systematic attempt to tap an important source of information about this phenomenon: the members themselves. Eighty members of nine self-help groups were surveyed. The results of this study suggest that self-help groups serve a different population than do professional therapists, that the help-giving processes are…
Causal attributions, sanctions, and normal mood variations
The causal-locus hypothesis (CLH) asserts that persons making internal attributions for failure and external attributions for success experience more negative postoutcome moods than persons making the opposite attributions. Three experiments assessed the CLH. Although outcomes consistently affected moods and attributions, attributions did not affect moods. Significant correlations consistent with the CLH were also infrequently obtained. Another t…
Fat Group
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Nancy Barron, Lucia Eakins, Richard Wollert; Fat Group: A SNAP-Launched Self-Help Group for Overweight Women. Human Organization 1 March 1984; 43 (1): 44–49. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.43.1.nl6712w258831205 Download citation file:…
Self-help clearing-houses in North America
Self-help groups hold the potential for helping many people adjust to health difficulties and life stresses. Self-help clearing-houses represent a community-centred approach to developing and realizing this potential. Several papers describing specific clearing-houses have been published, but a comprehensive survey of these organizations has not yet been completed. This article reports the results of such a survey, in which a majority of existing…
The self‐help clearinghouse concept
Many clearinghouses have been organized within the last decade to promote mutual aid and to provide referral information about self-help groups to potential members. Few of the assumptions that underpin the operation of these programs have been evaluated, however. This paper presents an evaluation of the Self-Help Information Service, a clearinghouse integrated with a generic information and referral service. The results were generally positive w…
Concurrent and longitudinal patterns among sanctions, mood, and attributions
An evaluation of a communications training program within a self-help group for sexually abusive families
Low base rates limit expert certainty when current actuarials are used to identify sexually violent predators
The author applied Bayes’s theorem to agewise sexual recidivism rates and the accuracy of high actuarial scores for predicting sexual recidivism in civil commit-ment cases. Recidivism rates consistently declined with age, paralleling the age-invariance pattern found for other offenders. Furthermore, actuarials were efficient for only the youngest group, were inaccurate for identifying recidivists, and mis-classified many nonrecidivists as recidiv…
Poor diagnostic reliability, the Null-Bayes Logic Model, and their implications for sexually violent predator evaluations
Forensic psychologists have approached sexually violent predator (SVP) civil commitment evaluations from the position that respondents must be positive for a condition from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association to be classified as SVPs. The only research on DSM diagnostic reliability in SVP cases has been undertaken by J. S. Levenson (2004a) and R. L. Packard and J. Levenson (2006)…
Paraphilic Coercive Disorder Does Not Belong in DSM-5 for Statistical, Historical, Conceptual, and Practical Reasons
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (3 works) · Attribution (2 works) · Bayes' theorem (2 works)