Dr Astrid Birgden

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Position

Visitor

Faculty

Faculty of Health

Department

School of Psychology

Campus

Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus

Publications

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2022

The Significance of an Australian Community Maintenance Program for Men Who Have Sexually Offended-Participant Perspectives

C Youssef, S Casey, A Birgden, B Guadagno

(2022), pp. 1-36, Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice, London, Eng., C1

journal article
2020

The treatment and management of child sexual abusers: Applying an evidence-based and ethical approach in the community

A Birgden

(2020), pp. 605-624, Child Sexual Abuse: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact, and Management, B1

book chapter

Clinicians' perspectives of forensic rehabilitation

P Robertson, M Barnao, T Ward, A Birgden, S Casey, B Guardagno

(2020), Vol. 27, pp. 138-154, Psychiatry, psychology and Law, Abingdon, Eng., C1

journal article
2019

The American psychological association's misuse of the role of psychologist-as-organizational-consultant to torture: Where was the "bright line" position?

A Birgden

(2019), pp. 45-60, The Wiley International Handbook of Correctional Psychology, London, Eng., B1

book chapter
2017

Potential underpinnings for community maintenance programs for sexual offenders

C Youssef, S Casey, A Birgden

(2017), Vol. 36, pp. 108-117, Aggression and violent behavior, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1

journal article
2015

Maximizing desistance: adding therapeutic jurisprudence and human rights to the mix

A Birgden

(2015), Vol. 42, pp. 19-31, Criminal justice and behavior, London, Eng., C1

journal article
2013

Assessing risk for preventive detention of sex offenders : The dichotomy between community protection and offender rights is wrong-headed

A Birgden

(2013), pp. 223-248, Preventive detention : asking the fundamental questions, Cambridge, England, B1-1

book chapter
2012

Case management in community corrections : current status and future directions

A Day, L Hardcastle, A Birgden

(2012), Vol. 51, pp. 484-495, Journal of offender rehabilitation, Philadelphia, Pa., C1

journal article
2011

The treatment of sex offenders : evidence, ethics, and human rights

A Birgden, H Cucolo

(2011), Vol. 23, pp. 295-313, Sexual abuse : a journal of research and treatment, Thousand Oaks, California, C1-1

journal article
2010

Community reintegration of prisoners with mental disabilities : the Australian and New Zealand context

A Birgden

(2010), pp. 1-34, Re-entry planning for offenders with mental disorders : policy and practice, Kingston, New Jersey, B1-1

book chapter

Establishing a compulsory drug treatment prison: Therapeutic policy, principles, and practices in addressing offender rights and rehabilitation

A Birgden, L Grant

(2010), Vol. 33, pp. 341-349, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, E1-1

conference
2009

Crime-prevention jurisprudence? A response to Andrews and Dowden

A Birgden

(2009), Vol. 51, pp. 93-117, Canadian journal of criminology and criminal justice, Ottawa, Ont., C1

journal article

Where the home in valley meets the damp dirty prison : a human rights perspective on therapeutic jurisprudence and the rule of forensic psychologists in correctional settings

A Birgden, M Perlin

(2009), Vol. 14, pp. 256-263, Aggression and violent behavior, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1

journal article

Accountability and dignity : ethical issues in forensic and correctional practice

T Ward, A Birgden

(2009), Vol. 14, pp. 227-231, Aggression and violent behavior, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1

journal article

'The witness who saw, /He left little doubt' : a comparative consideration of expert testimony in mental disability law cases in common and civil law systems

M Perlin, A Birgden, K Gledhill

(2009), Vol. 6, pp. 59-88, Journal of investigative psychology and offender profiling, Chichester, England, C1

journal article

Assessing treatment readiness in violent offenders

A Day, K Howells, S Casey, T Ward, J Chambers, A Birgden

(2009), Vol. 24, pp. 618-635, Journal of interpersonal violence, Beverly Hills, Calif., C1

journal article
2008

The Internet and child sexual offending : a criminological review

A Beech, I Elliot, A Birgden, D Findlater

(2008), Vol. 13, pp. 216-228, Aggression and violent behavior, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1

journal article

Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned and forsaked : therapeutic jurisprudence and international human rights law as applied to prisoners and detainees by forensic psychologists

A Birgden, M Perlin

(2008), Vol. 13, pp. 231-243, Legal and criminological psychology, Leicester, England, C1

journal article

Offender rehabilitation : a normative framework for forensic psychologists

A Birgden

(2008), Vol. 15, pp. 450-468, Psychiatry, psychology and law, London, United Kindgom, C1

journal article
2007

Human rights and the treatment of sex offenders

T Ward, T Gannon, A Birgden

(2007), Vol. 19, pp. 195-216, Sexual abuse : a journal of research and treatment, Thousand Oaks, Calif., C1-1

journal article

Treatment readiness : an overview of Australasian work

A Day, K Howells, S Casey, T Ward, A Birgden

(2007), Vol. 7, pp. 21-25, Issues in forensic psychology, Leicester, England, C1-1

journal article

Human rights and correctional clinical practice

T Ward, A Birgden

(2007), Vol. 12, pp. 628-643, Aggression and violent behavior, New York, N. Y., C1-1

journal article

Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring Act 2005 (Vic): A therapeutic jurisprudence analysis

A Birgden

(2007), Vol. 14, pp. 78-94, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, London, Eng., E1-1

conference
2004

The multifactor offender readiness model

T Ward, A Day, K Howells, A Birgden

(2004), Vol. 9, pp. 645-673, Aggression and violent behavior, New York, N. Y., C1-1

journal article

Therapeutic jurisprudence and responsivity: Finding the will and the way in offender rehabilitation

A Birgden

(2004), Vol. 10, pp. 283-295, Psychology, Crime and Law, Longon, Eng., C1-1

journal article
2003

Enhancing relapse prevention through the effective management of sex offenders in the community

A Birgden, K Owen, B Raymond

(2003), pp. 317-337, Sexual Deviance: Issues and Controversies, B1-1

book chapter
2002

Therapeutic jurisprudence and "good lives": A rehabilitation framework for corrections

A Birgden

(2002), Vol. 37, pp. 180-186, Australian Psychologist, London, Eng., C1-1

journal article
2001

The big 5 dimensional personality approach to understanding sex offenders

S Dennison, C Stough, A Birgden

(2001), Vol. 7, pp. 243-261, Psychology, Crime and Law, London, Eng., C1-1

journal article
2000

Maximizing therapeutic effects in treating sexual offenders in an Australian correctional system

A Birgden, F Vincent, J Vincent

(2000), Vol. 18, pp. 479-488, Behavioral Sciences and the Law, Winchester, England, E1-1

conference
1999

The assessment of fitness to stand trial for defendants with an intellectual disability: A proposed assessment procedure involving mental health professionals and lawyers

A Birgden, D Thomson

(1999), A1-1

book

Funded Projects at Deakin

Australian Competitive Grants

The effective treatment of drug using offenders: The impact of treatment modality, coercion and treatment readiness on criminal recidivism

Dr Andrew Day, Dr Sharon Casey, Dr Astrid Birgden

ARC Linkage - Projects Rnd 2 APAI APDI

  • 2013: $19,293
  • 2012: $37,156
  • 2011: $35,780
  • 2010: $17,613

Other Public Sector Funding

The effective treatment of drug using offenders: The impact of treatment modality, coercion and treatment readiness on criminal recidivism

Dr Andrew Day, Dr Sharon Casey, Dr Astrid Birgden

Corrective Services NSW

  • 2013: $15,000
  • 2012: $15,000
  • 2011: $15,000

Intensive Case Management Model Organisational Training Package for Community Correctional Services

Dr Lesley Hardcastle, Dr Astrid Birgden

Corrections Victoria

  • 2012: $17,500
  • 2011: $52,500

Supervisions

Associate Supervisor
2021

Peter David Robertson

Thesis entitled: The Good Lives Model in a Forensic Mental Health Care Context: Clinician Perspectives

Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology), School of Psychology

Carollyne Youssef

Thesis entitled: Community Maintenance Programs for Men who have Sexually Offended

Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology), School of Psychology

2015

Mary Teresa Barnao

Thesis entitled: The good lives model: a strength-based approach to forensic rehabilitation

Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology), School of Psychology