Identifying and Treating Sex Offenders
Identifying and Treating Sex Offenders

Author: Robert Geffner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 078902506X

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Identifying and Treating Sex Offenders: Current Approaches, Research, and Techniques brings you up-to-date on the latest significant issues and state-of-the-art tools involved in the evaluation and treatment of adult sex offenders. Experts in the field discuss controversial topics, including diagnoses, classification, public notification, and risk assessment, to help psychologists, therapists, and social workers better understand and work with this specialized population. This book also contains accurate information about sex offender statistics and research for policymakers to use in creating policies and legal statutes that successfully deter recidivism in known sex offenders.

Sexual Offender Treatment
Sexual Offender Treatment

Author: Geris Serran

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2005-12-13

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0470867752

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The knowledge base on sexual offender treatment has become so extensive that following established paths is no longer the only way to expand understanding and improve the assessment and treatment of clients. Written by established and recognised experts, Sexual Offender Treatment: Controversial Issues explores only the most current, novel and controversial issues in the field of sexual offender treatment This comprehensive text covers a wide range of issues, such as recidivism risk assessment, diagnostic problems, preparatory programs, psychopathy and online sexuality. The contributors to this book are speculative and provocative, yet base their controversial approaches on evidentiary findings. With fresh and alternative perspectives offered in each chapter, this volume aims to generate discussions and challenge the reader to reconsider their position on the issues. This innovative collection will appeal to all those working with sexual offenders in a range of capacities.

Sex Offender Treatment
Sex Offender Treatment

Author: Edmond J Coleman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1317787633

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Examine the major advances in sexual offender treatment over the last decade and promising new concepts in treatment, supervision, and research Sex Offender Treatment: Accomplishments, Challenges, and Future Directions points the way toward humane, dignified, effective treatment regimes for sexual offenders. In addition to providing an essential overview of the current state of sex offender treatment, this book examines vital areas of service provision and research and points to future directions for the field. On the medical/psychological front, this volume explores the importance of recognizing comorbid psychiatric factors in treatment and of exploring central nervous system function's role as a cause of sexually inappropriate behavior. In the legislative/justice arena it illustrates a Circles of Support proposal that mobilizes community resources to aid the adjustment of released offenders rather than branding them as dangerous to the community. And in the area of service provision, this book presents a treatment approach for residential programs that is inspired by research on childhood behavioral problems and special education. This book will increase your effectiveness with: a model of multisystemic treatment for juvenile sex offenders a restorative justice approach for reintegrating adult offenders into the community a study of the physical/mental correlates of organic brain dysfunction a case report on the use of a pharmaceutical treatment (leuprolide acetate) for pedophiles

Working with Sex Offenders
Working with Sex Offenders

Author: Michael A. O'Connell

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published: 1990-02

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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Sex offenders pose a unique set of problems within the criminal justice system. What forms of treatment are available? What qualifications should potential therapists have? What risks are involved with outpatient treatment? From therapist selection to outpatient treatment, this practical volume presents an informed view on problems associated with sex offender treatment. The authors clearly describe how a therapist's evaluation can be used to determine the level of risk in returning a sex offender back into a community.

Sex Offender Treatment
Sex Offender Treatment

Author: Daniel T. Wilcox

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-11-10

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1118674413

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Sex Offender Treatment is an innovative case study-based guide to the treatment of sexual offenders, offering direct access to the insights and experience of experts in the field. The book describes case formulations, assessment processes, and treatment undertaken with specific sexual offender types. Takes an innovative case study approach to sexual offender assessment and treatment, sharing practical insights and real-world experience in a challenging field Coverage is organized by key offender populations and includes bipolar offenders, child sexual abusers, Internet offenders, psychopathic offenders, personality disordered offenders and female offenders This distinctive approach aids trainee and novice workers to recognise key treatment issues, and plan and implement courses of therapeutic engagement and intervention to improve offender self-control Contributors include Bill Marshall, Leam Craig, Phil Rich, Bill Lindsay and Tony Ward