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Assessment and treatment of fire‐setting: A single‐case investigation using a cognitive‐behavioural model
Author(s) -
CLARE I.C.H.,
MURPHY G.H.,
COX D.,
CHAPLIN E.H.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
criminal behaviour and mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1471-2857
pISSN - 0957-9664
DOI - 10.1002/cbm.1992.2.3.253
Subject(s) - covert , disfigurement , psychology , cognition , arson , assertiveness , medicine , psychotherapist , psychiatry , surgery , philosophy , linguistics , criminology
There is a dearth of published studies on the treatment of arson in adults. A cognitive‐behavioural model of the fire‐setting of a young man with a mild learning disability and facial disfigurement is described. On the basis of the model, a comprehensive package of treatment, including facial surgery, social skills and assertiveness training, alternative coping strategies, and ‘assisted’ covert sensitisation, was carried out. At follow‐up, 48 months after moving to an environment which was not secure, there was no evidence that the man had either set further fires or made hoax calls to the fire brigade.