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SOCIAL SCIENCES

Social sciences examine human behavior, social structures, and interactions in various settings. Fields such as sociology, psychology, anthropology, and economics study social relationships, cultural norms, and institutions. By using different research methods, social scientists seek to understand community dynamics, the effects of policies, and factors driving social change. This field is important for tackling current issues, guiding public discussions, and developing strategies for social progress and innovation.

Participant views of the Healthy Sex Programme: findings from a qualitative research study 

By Nicholas Blagden, Luke Vinter, Jade Mason, Eve Penford & Polly Delliere-Moor

For the past two decades, His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) in England and Wales have delivered an accredited offending behaviour programme aimed at adult males (and transgender females) with sexual convictions who present with offence-related (paraphilic) sexual interests. It is called the Healthy Sex Programme (HSP). HSP is based on a biopsychosocial model of change and draws on a variety of intervention procedures from across a wide spectrum clinical practice in applied psychology. The programme is open to those with and without learning disability and challenges (LDC) and is typically accessed following the completion of a primary accredited programme.

It provides 12 to 30 hours of one-to-one therapeutic time, split across five modules of clinical content, and is designed to increase safe sexual selfregulation, to strengthen social capacities for prosocial change and motivation to desist from crime through its eight aims set out below. 1. Understand healthy and unhealthy sex. 2. Identify and regulate triggers to arousal to healthy and unhealthy sex. 3. Increase arousal to healthy sex and reduce arousal to unhealthy sex. 4. Increase behavioural control over sexual thoughts and urges. 5. Strengthen skills for adult intimacy. 6. Strengthen a compassionate self with intention and skills to be helpful not harmful. 7. Clarify personal values and ensure values dignify learning skills for change. 8. Update Relapse Prevention plans.

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Public Health, Sex Education, United NationsShamaya Banks