PRIORITY Team
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University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Hamburg, Germany)
Peer Briken, MD, is Principal Investigator of PRIORITY and the German version of Prevent. He is a full Professor for Sex Research since 2010 and the chair of the Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine, and Forensic Psychiatry and on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Psychotherapy at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf.
His main clinical work and research activities are psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatment of patients with Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder, paraphilic disorders, and people convicted for sexual offending.
Arne Dekker (Project Manager), Dr. phil., is Deputy Director of the Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine, and Forensic Psychiatry at UKE. His research focuses on social transformation of sexuality, issues of digital sexual health, and on digital sexual violence. He received a doctoral scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and numerous grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA). He was Secretary/Treasurer of the German Society for Sex Research (DGfS; 2010-2013) and editor of the German Journal for Sex Research (Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung; 2011-2016).
Lina Haubrock is a PhD candidate and Researcher at the Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry at the UKE.
She has a Master's degree in Comparative Criminal Justice from Leiden University. Within PRIORITY her focus is on the Delphi Study, female MAP's and the Prevent it implementation in Germany. In her PhD she focusses on access and implementation barriers to prevention programs for child sexual abuse in the EU.
Jana Hillert, PhD candidate and Researcher at the Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry at the UKE.
She has a Master's degree in Legal Psychology from Maastricht University. Within PRIORITY she is working mainly on the focus group study, the Delphi study and Prevent it in Germany. Her PhD topic relates to stigmatization of pedophilia as a barrier to help-seeking behavior for individuals with a sexual interest in children.
Barbara Henseler, B. Sc. Psychology, is a student assistant at the Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry at the UKE.
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Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden)
Christoffer Rahm, MD, PhD, psychiatrist and research group leader at Center for Psychiatry Research, Karolinska Institutet.His research takes place in the interface of classic psychiatry and modern neuroscience, mostly within the setting of clinical trials, mostly focusing on pedophilia and CSA prevention.
In Priority, he is principal investigator for the evaluation of the therapeutic program.
Malin Joleby, PhD in psychology, is a postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. Her previous research has been on victimology (understanding the psychological impact of technology-assisted child sexual abuse), and on police interviews with preschoolers.
She is the project coordinator for the Swedish parts of PRIORITY, and one of the therapists in the Prevent It program.
Susanne Zällh, CBT-therapist and research assistant at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
Susanne is one of the therapists in the Prevent It program and is responsible for recruiting participants to the project, carrying out treatment and ensuring accurate documentation.
Zusanna Bjurenfalk, psychologist and research assistant at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
Zusanna is one of the therapists in the Prevent It program and is responsible for recruiting participants to the project and carrying out treatment.
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Universidade Do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
Joana Carvalho is an assistant professor of Psychology at the University of Aveiro (UA), executive director of the SexLab, and coordinator of the Human Sexuality Group of the Center for Psychology at Porto University; she further coordinates the Sexual Behavior and Health lab at UA. Carvalho’s research relates to the field of sexual health, sexual violence, and the study of the cognitive and emotional determinants of sexual response, with a focus on its psychophysiological correlates.
Carvalho is a co-PI in the PRIORITY project, leading the cultural adaptation of Prevent It and the law-enforcement associated barriers to Prevent It work packages.
Vanessa Azevedo, Doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto. She has a PhD in Applied Psychology from the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal) and is also a licensed psychologist (Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses). Her research focuses on sexual violence, both on victimization and perpetration perspectives.
Within PRIORITY, she is mainly working on the focus group study with Criminal Police and the Prevent It implementation in Portugal.
Cláudia Rodrigues has a Master’s degree in the Psychology of Justice and Deviation Behavior from the University of Porto. The focus of her research is sexual violence.
On the PRIORITY project, she is mainly working on the focus group study with the Criminal Police and on the Prevent It implementation in Portugal.
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The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre (Ottawa, Canada)
Michael Seto is a research director and Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa.
He is leading the evaluation of the interventions for PRIORITY.
Sacha Maimone, PhD in psychology and post-doctoral fellow at the Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research (IMHR), under the supervision of Dr. Michael Seto. She has a PhD degree in Psychology from Carleton University. During her degree, she received training in many advanced statistical techniques. Her research to date has focussed mainly on establishing the construct validity of variables related to violent offending – most notably the psychometric assessment and development of measures assessing offense-related cognitions in relation to violent offending.
Within PRIORITY she will mainly work on the evaluation of Prevent It in terms of its efficacy and implementation fidelity.
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Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA)
Elizabeth J Letourneau, PhD, Professor of Mental Health and Director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. I have a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology and have focused my 35-year career on preventing and addressing child sexual abuse.
Within PRIORITY I am a consultant on efforts to evaluate the Prevent it intervention.
Rebecca Fix, PhD, is an Assistant Professor working in the Johns Hopkins - Bloomberg School of Public Health within the Department of Mental Health, and a faculty affiliate of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse. Her research focuses on promoting mental health equity and equity in legal outcomes within the juvenile legal system and on interrupting pathways from childhood maltreatment to use of sexual and physical violence during adolescence. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist.
On the PRIORITY project, she is working on the evaluation team.
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