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Research Initiatives

The success of WellStop's treatment programmes rests on the knowledge and experience the staff at WellStop have acquired over the years. Articles published by our staff and others working in this field are listed below.

The Good Way Model

A strengths-based approach for working with young people, especially those with intellectual difficulties, who have sexually abusive behaviour.
Lesley Ayland and Bill West
Journal of Sexual Aggression 2006 Vol 12:22, Pages 189-201

An Outcome Evaluation of three NZ Community Sex Offender Treatment Programmes

Ian Lambie and Malcolm Stewart
Commissioned by the Dept. of Corrections 2003

Ending Offending Together

All about child sexual abuse, the people who commit it and how to stop it
Caroline Witten-Hannah, Frances Miller and John McCarthy
Child, Youth & Family Services booklet, 2004

Ten Years of Adolescent Sexual Offender Treatment in NZ Past Practices and Future Directions

Ian Lambie, John McCarthy, Hamish Dixon, Don Mortenson
Psychiatry, Psychology & Law, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2001