Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families

ISBN-13: 9780789025432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 226 str.

John S. Wodarski; Carolyn Hilarski

Opis

Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families presents practitioners, professionals, and policymakers with effective, user-friendly practice methods for working with all types of sex offenders. Each chapter provides an overview of a specific category of sex offender and presents case examples and sample treatment plans with short- and long-term goals and objectives. This unique book also includes the latest assessment and intervention methods, family and relapse prevention efforts, and cultural issues that affect service delivery.

Spis treści

• About the Editors
  
• Contributors
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Chapter 1. Child Sex Offenders (Peggy P. Keller, Matthew T. Theriot, and Catherine N. Dulmus)
  
• Introduction
  
• Prevalence of Child Sexual Offending
  
• Characteristics of Child Sex Offenders
  
• Family Characteristics
  
• Offense Characteristics
  
• Etiology
  
• Assessment
  
• Empirical Interventions
  
• Case Example
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 2. Adolescent Sex Offending (Matthew T. Theriot)
  
• Introduction
  
• Overview of Adolescent Sex Offending
  
• Demographics
  
• Deviant Sexual Behavior Characteristics
  
• Traumatic Victimization History
  
• Cognitive and Psychiatric Characteristics
  
• Social and Environmental Dynamics
  
• Assessment
  
• Treatment
  
• Case Example
  
• Chapter 3. Adult Male Sex Offenders (Carolyn Hilarski and Carl W. Christensen)
  
• Introduction
  
• Prevalence
  
• Personal Characteristics
  
• Etiology
  
• The Consequences of Sexual Offending
  
• Risk Factors
  
• Assessment
  
• Interventions
  
• Therapy Groups
  
• Treatment
  
• Case Example
  
• Chapter 4. Women Who Sexually Abuse Children (Myriam S. Denov and Franca Cortoni)
  
• Introduction
  
• Etiology
  
• Prevalence
  
• Long-Term Consequences of Child Sexual Abuse by Females
  
• Assessment
  
• Treatment
  
• Case Example
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 5. Perpetrators Within Professions (Joe Sullivan and Anthony Beech)
  
• Introduction
  
• Overview of the Perpetrator Within Professions
  
• Abuse Settings
  
• Etiology of Abuse
  
• Behavioral Consequences
  
• Current Empirical Assessment
  
• Empirical Interventions for Perpetrators Within Professions
  
• Relapse Prevention
  
• Case Example
  
• Chapter 6. Intellectually and Developmentally Challenged Sex Offenders (William R. Lindsay, Lesley Steptoe, and Kathleen Quinn)
  
• Introduction
  
• Prevalence and Characteristics
  
• Typologies of Offenders
  
• Assessment Issues
  
• Issues for Families
  
• Interventions
  
• Case Example
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 7. Violent Sex Offenders (Devon L.L. Polaschek, Tony Ward, and Theresa A. Gannon)
  
• Introduction
  
• The Nature of Violence
  
• Offender Characteristics
  
• Rapist Typologies and Violence
  
• Etiology of Violent Sex Offending
  
• Current Empirical Assessment Issues with Violent Sex Offenders
  
• Current Empirically Supported Interventions
  
• Relapse Prevention
  
• Case Example
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 8. Comorbid Psychopathology in Child, Adolescent, and Adult Sexual Offenders (David P. Fago)
  
• Introduction
  
• Comorbidity in a Developmental Context
  
• Child and Adolescent Sexual Offenders
  
• Adult Sexual Offenders
  
• Etiological Implications
  
• Mood Dysregulation and the “Monoamine Hypothesis”
  
• The “Executive Function” Hypothesis
  
• Assessment and Treatment: A Multimodal Approach
  
• Case Example
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

O autorze

Hilarski, M. Carolyn; Wodarski, John S