Kevin Howells
Biographic Data
| ID | 222142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Howells |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Howells |
| SIGNATURE | HOWELLS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Alcohol‐related violence defined by ultimate goals
Based upon a functional approach to understanding aggression, we aimed to identify the occurrence of and to describe the features of three types of alcohol‐related violence defined a priori by ultimate goals: (1) violence in pursuit of nonsocial profit‐based goals, (2) violence in pursuit of social dominance goals, and (3) violence as defence in response to threat. A sample of 149 young men with offences of violence that were alcohol related was …
The Rehabilitation of Indigenous Prisoners
The massive problems experienced by Indigenous Australians in their encounters with the criminal justice system have been well documented and widely discussed. This paper applies the Risk, Needs and Responsivity Model of rehabilitation to Indigenous offenders. While much of the review is devoted to a discussion of Australian Indigenous offenders, the issues raised are likely to be relevant to Indigenous groups from other countries and, possibly, …
Psychological treatments for rehabilitating offenders
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in psychological approaches to offender rehabilitation. In this paper, we present an overview of the literature regarding the effectiveness of such approaches and discuss how the research literature has helped to begin to define best practice in this area. Finally, the implications of this work for psychologists working with offenders are discussed
Grasping the nettle
Violent offenders are a significant group within prisons and correctional services and would generally be regarded as a priority for treatment and rehabilitation. Assessment and treatment approaches need to be based on theories of crime in general and of violence in particular. Available evidence suggests a range of criminogenic needs in violent offender populations. Individual functional analysis is thus required to ascertain the individual's ne…
Attributions of Negative Partner Behavior by Men Who Physically Abuse Their Partners
The management of suicide and self-harm in prisons
Suicide and self-harm in prisons are serious problems in Australasia and in many other jurisdictions. Psychologists frequently have a role in advising on, and assisting in, the prevention of such behaviours. Few guidelines and formal statements of good professional practice exist for such work. In this paper we review the published literature and current prevention practices with a view to devising recommendations for good practice in management …
Accounting for the fear of schizophrenia
Research over the last three decades has demonstrated that a substantial minority of both professional and lay people have negative and rejecting attitudes towards the mentally ill. We argue that these attitudes may, in part, be a function of a tendency to perceive the mentally ill as somehow inherently dangerous and liable to violence. The evidence for the association between schizophrenia and violence suggests that although people with schizoph…
Dealing with dying patients
The study reports on a questionnaire study of final-year medical students' self-reported attitudes to dealing with dying patients. All respondents had some direct clinical experience with dying patients, and reported that such encounters were largely unproblematic. Alleviating patient anxiety and counseling relatives were seen as important aspects of the doctor's role, along with diagnosis, and management of symptoms. “High fear” respondents were…
Medical students' self-reported worries about aspects of death and dying
Worries about four aspects of death and dying were elicited from a group of third year medical students. Using a reliable coding system devised by the authors these worries were categorized into types of worry. Different types of worry were shown to be associated with each aspect of death and dying. Being dead oneself was a source of few worries. One's own dying process was associated mainly with worries about pain. For the death of close other's…
Fear of death and dying among medical students
Some Meanings of Children for Pedophiles
The Sexual Attitudes of Aggressive Sexual Offenders
KEVIN HOWELLS, ERIC WRIGHT; THE SEXUAL ATTITUDES OF AGGRESSIVE SEXUAL OFFENDERS, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 18, Issue 2, 1 April 1978, Page
Fear of death and dying among medical students
Attributions of Negative Partner Behavior by Men Who Physically Abuse Their Partners
Grasping the nettle
Violent offenders are a significant group within prisons and correctional services and would generally be regarded as a priority for treatment and rehabilitation. Assessment and treatment approaches need to be based on theories of crime in general and of violence in particular. Available evidence suggests a range of criminogenic needs in violent offender populations. Individual functional analysis is thus required to ascertain the individual's ne…
Alcohol‐related violence defined by ultimate goals
Based upon a functional approach to understanding aggression, we aimed to identify the occurrence of and to describe the features of three types of alcohol‐related violence defined a priori by ultimate goals: (1) violence in pursuit of nonsocial profit‐based goals, (2) violence in pursuit of social dominance goals, and (3) violence as defence in response to threat. A sample of 149 young men with offences of violence that were alcohol related was …
Accounting for the fear of schizophrenia
Research over the last three decades has demonstrated that a substantial minority of both professional and lay people have negative and rejecting attitudes towards the mentally ill. We argue that these attitudes may, in part, be a function of a tendency to perceive the mentally ill as somehow inherently dangerous and liable to violence. The evidence for the association between schizophrenia and violence suggests that although people with schizoph…
Dealing with dying patients
The study reports on a questionnaire study of final-year medical students' self-reported attitudes to dealing with dying patients. All respondents had some direct clinical experience with dying patients, and reported that such encounters were largely unproblematic. Alleviating patient anxiety and counseling relatives were seen as important aspects of the doctor's role, along with diagnosis, and management of symptoms. “High fear” respondents were…
Medical students' self-reported worries about aspects of death and dying
Worries about four aspects of death and dying were elicited from a group of third year medical students. Using a reliable coding system devised by the authors these worries were categorized into types of worry. Different types of worry were shown to be associated with each aspect of death and dying. Being dead oneself was a source of few worries. One's own dying process was associated mainly with worries about pain. For the death of close other's…
The Sexual Attitudes of Aggressive Sexual Offenders
KEVIN HOWELLS, ERIC WRIGHT; THE SEXUAL ATTITUDES OF AGGRESSIVE SEXUAL OFFENDERS, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 18, Issue 2, 1 April 1978, Page
The management of suicide and self-harm in prisons
Suicide and self-harm in prisons are serious problems in Australasia and in many other jurisdictions. Psychologists frequently have a role in advising on, and assisting in, the prevention of such behaviours. Few guidelines and formal statements of good professional practice exist for such work. In this paper we review the published literature and current prevention practices with a view to devising recommendations for good practice in management …
The Sexual Attitudes of Aggressive Sexual Offenders
KEVIN HOWELLS, ERIC WRIGHT; THE SEXUAL ATTITUDES OF AGGRESSIVE SEXUAL OFFENDERS, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 18, Issue 2, 1 April 1978, Page
Some Meanings of Children for Pedophiles
Fear of death and dying among medical students
Medical students' self-reported worries about aspects of death and dying
Worries about four aspects of death and dying were elicited from a group of third year medical students. Using a reliable coding system devised by the authors these worries were categorized into types of worry. Different types of worry were shown to be associated with each aspect of death and dying. Being dead oneself was a source of few worries. One's own dying process was associated mainly with worries about pain. For the death of close other's…
Dealing with dying patients
The study reports on a questionnaire study of final-year medical students' self-reported attitudes to dealing with dying patients. All respondents had some direct clinical experience with dying patients, and reported that such encounters were largely unproblematic. Alleviating patient anxiety and counseling relatives were seen as important aspects of the doctor's role, along with diagnosis, and management of symptoms. “High fear” respondents were…
Accounting for the fear of schizophrenia
Research over the last three decades has demonstrated that a substantial minority of both professional and lay people have negative and rejecting attitudes towards the mentally ill. We argue that these attitudes may, in part, be a function of a tendency to perceive the mentally ill as somehow inherently dangerous and liable to violence. The evidence for the association between schizophrenia and violence suggests that although people with schizoph…
The management of suicide and self-harm in prisons
Suicide and self-harm in prisons are serious problems in Australasia and in many other jurisdictions. Psychologists frequently have a role in advising on, and assisting in, the prevention of such behaviours. Few guidelines and formal statements of good professional practice exist for such work. In this paper we review the published literature and current prevention practices with a view to devising recommendations for good practice in management …
Attributions of Negative Partner Behavior by Men Who Physically Abuse Their Partners
Psychological treatments for rehabilitating offenders
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in psychological approaches to offender rehabilitation. In this paper, we present an overview of the literature regarding the effectiveness of such approaches and discuss how the research literature has helped to begin to define best practice in this area. Finally, the implications of this work for psychologists working with offenders are discussed
Grasping the nettle
Violent offenders are a significant group within prisons and correctional services and would generally be regarded as a priority for treatment and rehabilitation. Assessment and treatment approaches need to be based on theories of crime in general and of violence in particular. Available evidence suggests a range of criminogenic needs in violent offender populations. Individual functional analysis is thus required to ascertain the individual's ne…
The Rehabilitation of Indigenous Prisoners
The massive problems experienced by Indigenous Australians in their encounters with the criminal justice system have been well documented and widely discussed. This paper applies the Risk, Needs and Responsivity Model of rehabilitation to Indigenous offenders. While much of the review is devoted to a discussion of Australian Indigenous offenders, the issues raised are likely to be relevant to Indigenous groups from other countries and, possibly, …
Alcohol‐related violence defined by ultimate goals
Based upon a functional approach to understanding aggression, we aimed to identify the occurrence of and to describe the features of three types of alcohol‐related violence defined a priori by ultimate goals: (1) violence in pursuit of nonsocial profit‐based goals, (2) violence in pursuit of social dominance goals, and (3) violence as defence in response to threat. A sample of 149 young men with offences of violence that were alcohol related was …
Psychology (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (5 works) · Medical emergency (4 works)