Treating Sex Offenders: A Guide to Clinical Practice with Adults, Clerics, Children, and Adolescents, Second Edition (Haworth Criminal Justice, Forensic Behavioral Sciences & Offender Rehabilitation)

Gain important new insights into religious personnel who molest children! Treating Sex Offenders: A Guide to Clinical Practice with Adults, Clerics, Children, and Adolescents, Second Edition updates the groundbreaking original with new material that integrates adolescent and adult sex offenders, emphasizing similarities and differences in personality type, behavior, and treatment. Author William Prendergast draws on four decades' experience in working in the diagnosis and treatment of habitual sex offenders to present a straightforward look at what makes them tick. This vital new edition includes appropriate additions and changes to treatment techniques, progress reports on case study subjects, reader feedback on the original book, and perhaps most important, new information on religious personnel who molest children. Treating Sex Offenders provides training in clear language for those working with sexual offenders and explanations in simple terms for those suffering as a result of their actions. The book parallels workshops and courses conducted by the author, detailing how to identify major characteristics and traits of offenders, different types of offenders, child and adolescent offenders, how to recognize warning signs of deviant behavior, and how to apply specific treatment techniques that really work. Individual aspects of the makeup and treatment of the compulsive adult and adolescent sex offender are addressed through factors, traits, treatment, and candid cases studies. Treating Sex Offenders addresses the most vital issues involving sexual pathology, including: 
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<li> inadequate personality theory </li>
<li> sexual performance problems </li>
<li> imprinting </li>
<li> self-confrontation </li>
<li> sex as the chosen deviation </li>
<li> the five c's of sex offender treatment </li>
<li> and much more!</li>
</ul> Treating Sex Offenders: A Guide to Clinical Practice with Adults, Clerics, Children, and Adolescents, Second Edition is an essential resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and those in the criminal justice field who deal with sex offenders on a daily basis. Family members involved in the lives of sex offenders and survivors of sexual abuse or assault will find the case studies enlightening in making sense of a tragic situation.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pallone, Letitia C

Prendergast, William E

Mental Health

Routledge

Treating Sex Offenders in Correctional Institutions and Outpatient Clinics: A Guide to Clinical Practice

Successfully treating sex offenders is a major sexual abuse prevention task and more necessary than ever amidst rising victim rates. Based on William Prendergast's nearly 30 years’experience in the field, this book addresses two major components of treatment: the “who” of sex offenders--principal characteristics of various types of sex offenders--and the “why” of sex offenders--clients’motives for seeking treatment. Professionals who have desperately wanted information on the identification and treatment of both sex offenders and the survivors of sexual abuse will find Treating Sex Offenders in Correctional Institutions and Outpatient Clinics a thorough and helpful book. This riveting book features principles and facts of treating offenders, illustrated by one or more case studies pertinent to the issue. These profuse case examples support the practice findings and treatment principles presented throughout the book. One of the more intriguing topics addressed is the need for greater recognition of sex offender development in young children and adolescents. Treating the young person before they commit, or attempt to commit, sex crimes would drastically reduce the number of active sex offenders. Practical topics include therapist qualifications and cautions; clinical interviewing techniques; comparisons of different types of offenders; treatment considerations and caveats; specific treatment techniques for each type of case; and aftercare considerations.Treating Sex Offenders in Correctional Institutions and Outpatient Clinics assists those new to the field in making appropriate treatment decisions, thereby enhancing their clients’success in therapy. A wide selection of readers will find this book a welcome addition to the available literature, including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and those in the criminal justice field who deal with sex offenders on a daily basis. Parents and significant others involved in the lives of sex offenders and survivors of sexual abuse or assault who are trying to understand abusers and their motives will find the case studies especially intriguing and enlightening.

Self-Help

The Merry-Go-Round of Sexual Abuse (Haworth Criminal Justice, Forensic Behavioral Sciences & Offender Rehabilita)

The Merry-Go-Round of Sexual Abuse is a valuable guide to identifying, treating, and breaking the cycle of sexual abuse. Based on 30 years of professional experience in treating offenders and survivors of sexual assault and sexual molestation, Dr. Prendergast provides step-by-step guidelines and specialized treatment techniques most effective in producing change in this group of clients. Each technique is illustrated with pertinent case studies. This is a much-needed guide for professionals who often lack specific training in the identification and treatment of both offenders and survivors of sexual abuse.Prendergast identifies the survivors of sexual abuse, explores the “why sex” inquiry and discusses the characteristics of the abuser. Each topic is treated by first presenting a fact or principle which is then illustrated with a case study that exhibits the principle in practice. A broad range of topics essential to the treatment of offenders and survivors of sexual abuse are clearly explained in this book including: 
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<li>18 factors to consider when working with survivors of sexual abuse </li>
<li>behavioral effects of unresolved but consciously remembered sexual abuse and unidentified sexual trauma </li>
<li>specialized interviewing techniques for survivors of sexual abuse </li>
<li>specific treatment techniques for 4 different categories of sexual abuse--homosexual abuse (both seductive and assaultive), assaultive sexual abuse, incest, and long-term seductive sexual child abuse </li>
<li>“self-confrontation” as a new therapy approach for survivors </li>
<li>aftercare continuation and consistency </li>
<li>therapist qualifications and cautionsThis book is an in-depth exploration of the topic, usually only touched on in college courses and graduate programs. It features treatment techniques that are not taught in schools or universities. Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and counselors who are untrained in working with this specific group will benefit from these insightful discussions and specific case studies. The Merry-Go-Round of Sexual Abuse can easily be used as a complete training manual for practicing therapists as well as interns, trainees, and graduate students in the field of sexual abuse. In addition, police investigators, parents of either victims or abusers, significant others of survivors, survivors themselves, and the public in general will benefit from the understanding Prendergast offers on the problem of sexual abuse.</li>
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The Merry-Go-Round of Sexual Abuse: Identifying and Treating Survivors (Haworth Criminal Justice, Forensic Behavioral Sciences & Offender Rehabilita)

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