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Firestone, Philip (PhD)

Philip Firestone is a professor in the School of Psychology and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa where he teaches psychopathology at the graduate and undergraduate level, and is involved with the clinical training of doctoral students. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at McGill University. After returning to Ottawa he was on staff at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario before moving to the University of Ottawa where he became director of the Child Study Centre, a children's mental health centre, for some ten years. He has published extensively in behavioural medicine as well as behaviour disorders of childhood and adolescence. His textbook "Abnormal Psychology" is presently in its third edition. After spending a sabbatical at Queen's University he returned to the treatment of sexual offenders. Since the early 1990s his research and publication interests have been focused solely on sexual offenders. He has an active forensic and clinical practice in which he provides assessment and treatment for men convicted of sexual offenses.

Website: www.philipfirestone.com

Selected Publications:

  • Firestone, P., Kingston, A.D., Wexler, A., & Bradford, J.M. (2006). Long Term Follow-up of Exhibitionists: Psychological, Phallometric, and Offence Characteristics. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 34, 349-359
  • Firestone, P., Nunes, K.L., Moulden, H., Broom, I., & Bradford, J.M.  (2005).Hostility and Recidivism in Sexual Offenders. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 34, 277-283.
  • Firestone, P., Bradford, J., McCoy, M., Greenberg, D.M., Larose, M.R., & Curry, S. (2000). Prediction of Recidivism in Court Referred Child Molesters. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 12, 3, 203-222.
  • Firestone, P., Bradford, J.M., Greenberg, D.M., Larose, M.R., & Curry, S. (1998). Homicidal and Non-Homicidal Child Molesters: Psychological, Phallometric and Criminal Features. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 10, 4, 305 B323.

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