Routledge Mental Health

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• Paperback: 274 pages
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• Published: August 2001
• ISBN: 978-0-7890-1499-3
• Publisher: Routledge

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Learn to work effectively with sexual criminals!

How to Work with Sex Offenders is the first complete manual available on the subject for professionals who deal with this very difficult population. This user-friendly, comprehensive resource presents new data that will give you techniques for effectively interviewing sex offenders and outlines innovative treatment options in an understandable way, but that is just part of what makes this book unique. How to Work with Sex Offenders walks you through the criminal justice, human services, and mental health systems as applied to sex offenders from start to finish -- you'll learn what happens to the offender from the point when he/she is apprehended, through prosecution, adjudication, and treatment.

From the Preface, by Rudy Flora: “Sexual offending impacts both victim and offender. The clinical harm experienced by a victim is significant and recovery is long-termed. Offenders, too, are often trapped in the tragedy of their deviance. Sex offenders are extremely skillful at avoiding detection, and will use any 'system confusion’displayed by providers to their advantage. [With this book] the reader will be exposed, in a step-by-step format, to how the criminal justice, human service, and mental health systems function.”

How to Work With Sex Offenders: A Handbook for Criminal Justice, Human Service, and Mental Health Professionals examines:

• how the current system works, from start to finish
• the roles of child protective services workers, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, physicians/hospital staff, district attorneys, defense lawyers, judges, mental health professionals, foster families, probation officers, correctional officers, parole officers, and social services providers
• individual, family, and group therapy models
• basic universal concepts regarding identification of sex offenders
• profiles of exhibitionists, frotteurs, voyeurs, pedophiles, rapists, sexual sadists and paraphiliacs
• what to expect when called as an expert witness at a sex offender's trial
• sexual assault as a clinical disorder
• suggested treatment formats for sex offenders in an outpatient setting, inpatient psychiatric hospital, or correctional facility
• the costs of incarceration as well as inpatient and outpatient costs
• the difficulties of parole and probational supervision for sex offenders
• presentencing reports and interviewing strategies
• and much more

Many sex offenders were early victims themselves. Incarceration alone will not alleviate the problem; other methods to prevent repeat offences are needed. Those who encounter these offenders require certain skills in order to properly protect the public and the victim as well as helping the offenders themselves. How to Work with Sex Offenders is the resource you need to handle this extraordinarily difficult and vitally important task.

Table of Contents

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. The Sex Offender: An Introduction
• Definitions
• Statistical Information
• Sex Offenders and Social Policy
• How the Current System Works
• Chapter 2. The Criminal Justice System
• Law Enforcement
• The Sex Offender and Corrections
• Incarceration and Inpatient and Outpatient Treatment Costs
• Correctional Treatment Programs
• Probation and Parole supervision
• Chapter 3. The Human Services System
• Child Protective Services
• Demographics
• Intervention
• Clinical Features in Child Sexual Abuse
• Other Behavioral and Developmental Issues
• The Child Protective Service Worker
• Chapter 4. The Mental Health Professional
• The Role of the Therapist
• Standards in Treatment
• Therapist Qualifications and Skills
• Clinical Assessment
• Confidentiality
• Serving As an Expert Witness
• Chapter 5. Clinical Classification of Sexual Disorders
• Sexual Disorder
• Paraphilias
• Paraphilia Not Otherwise Specified
• Sexual Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
• Chapter 6. The Paraphilias
• Background and History
• Some Clinical Studies
• The Criminal Justice System and Paraphilias
• Paraphilias Types
• Chapter 7. Rape As a Clinical and Criminal Disturbance
• Rape As a Clinical Disturbance
• Child Molestation Typologies and Taxonomies
• Rape Typologies and Taxonomies
• Rape As a Criminal Disturbance
• Chapter 8. Sex Offender Characteristics
• Sex Offenders Violate Law
• The Sex Offender Psychological Profile
• Sex Offenders and Their Crimes
• Other Behavioral Characteristics
• A Sexual Offense Chain
• Chapter 9. Theory and Treatment
• Theory and Sexual Assault
• Basic Treatment Principles
• Specific Treatment Models
• Sexual Disorders and Treatment Suggestions
• Chapter 10. Individual Therapy
• A Treatment Philosophy
• Individual or Group Therapy
• Sexual Recovery Therapy
• Chapter 11. Family Therapy
• Family Therapy Techniques
• Therapy of Adult Sex Offenders
• Multiple Systems Model
• Chapter 12. Group Therapy
• A Brief History of Sex Offender Group Therapy
• Some Basic Elements for Sex Offender Group Therapy
• Starting a Sex Offender Treatment Group
• Group Therapy Models
• Chapter 13. Special Populations
• Adolescent Sex Offenders
• Antisocial Personality Disorder Offenders
• Female Sex Offenders
• Chapter 14. Other Special Populations
• Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders
• The Mentally Retarded Sex Offender
• Serial Sex Offenders
• Stalkers
• Sex Addicts
• Chapter 15. Additional Treatment Concepts
• Pharmacology and Surgical Castration
• Recidivism and Relapse
• Risk Assessment
• Registration, Public Notice, and the Internet
• Conclusions
• References
• Index