Focusing on the correct assessment techniques and behavioural approach to maladaptive sexual abuse disorders, this book covers such topics as aversive respondent conditioning and reconditioning. The author offers a discussion of future directions in behavioural treatment.

Sexual Abuse and the Sexual Offender examines the myths perpetuated by the media and widely held by the public, by providing actual data, with case examples, to demonstrate how sexual offending occurs, who commits these acts, what might cause such crimes, how sexual offenders are assessed, supervised and treated, and how to prevent such offending from occurring to the reader or to members of her or his own family.

The book is intended for those interested in the phenomenon of sexual offending and for those who have been affected by it or know someone, perhaps a family member...