Sex Offender Treatment: Biological Dysfunction, Intrapsychic Conflict, Interpersonal Violence

by Edmond J Coleman, Margretta Dwyer

Overview

Sex Offender Treatment: Biological Dysfunction, Intrapsychic Conflict, Interpersonal Violence assists sex therapists, counselors, psychiatrists, and psychologists working in sex offender treatment in providing more effective services. You’ll gain timely knowledge of sex offending behavior and treatment approaches that will stimulate your thinking and help you improve your research and treatment methodologies.

From Sex Offender Treatment, you’ll acquire valuable insight and a cross-cultural viewpoint as you explore chapters written by international scholars who have set the standards of care for sex offender treatment. Contributors aim to improve the effectiveness of sex offender treatment throughout the world by challenging you to conduct more research that will provide a better understanding of sex offenders and improve treatment approaches. Authors presented their contributions at the Third International Congress on the Treatment of Sex Offenders held in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The book begins with a Standards of Care for the Treatment of Sex Offenders. This guides you in increasing the effectiveness of the treatment you provide to sex offenders. The Standards of Care helps you analyze new data and gain a basis for successful sex offender treatment. Following chapters probe into the nature of interpersonal violence and aggression and a further understanding of pedophilia and exhibitionism. You will begin to more thoroughly understand sex offending behavior as you read about:

• motives contributing to sexual aggression and the confluence model of sexual aggression
• the background and clinical characteristics of paraphilic individuals and sex offenders
• a case study of sex offenders, victims, and their families
• the “abuse to abuser hypothesis” in regard to pedaphilia
• assessment, psychosexual profiling, and treatment of exhibitionist behavior
• the treatment of sex offenders with mental retardation
• the relationship between sex offender treatment success and learning difficulties
• incest offender perceptions of treatment as used to generate an explanatory theory of the sexual abuse treatment process.
  
  Chapters in Sex Offender Treatment emphasize the importance of good assessment techniques, issues affecting victims and families of sex offenders, why treatment does not work for some sex offenders, medical problems associated with sex offenders, and working with special populations of sex offenders. Counselors, researchers, educators, sex offender treatment personnel, forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, and sex therapists will find Sex Offender Treatment crucial for gaining insight into sex offenders’motives and behaviors. You can then use these perspectives to more effectively interact with sex offenders and to more accurately analyze sex offending behavior.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317764144
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/09/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Edmond J Coleman, Margretta Dwyer

Table of Contents

Introduction and Dedication, ELI COLEMAN, S. MARGRETTA DWYER; Chapter 1 Standards of Care for the Treatment of Adult Sex Offenders, ELI COLEMAN, S. MARGRETTA DWYER, GENE ABEL, WOLFGANG BERNER, JAMES BREILING, JAN HINDMAN, FAY HONEY KNOPP, RON LANGEVIN, FRIEDEMANN PFAFFLIN; Chapter 2 The Confluence Model of Sexual Aggression: Combining Hostile Masculinity and Impersonal Sex, NEIL M. MALAMUTH, CHRISTOPHER L. HEAVEY, DANIEL LINZ; Chapter 3 Major Factors in the Assessment of Paraphilics and Sex Offenders, RON LANGEVIN, R.J. WATSON; Chapter 4 Comparative Differences in the Psychological Histories of Sex Offenders, Victims, and Their Families, L.C. MICCIO-FONSECA; Chapter 5 The Genesis of Pedophilia: Testing the Abuse-to-Abuser Hypothesis, J. PAUL FEDOROFF, SHARI PINKUS; Chapter 6 Assessment, Psychosexual Profiling, and Treatment of Exhibitionists, B.R. SIMON ROSSER, S. MARGRETTA DWYER; Chapter 7 Treatment Successes with Mentally Retarded Sex Offenders, DAVID NOLLEY, LYNNE MUCCIGROSSO, ERIC ZIGMAN; Chapter 8 Why Therapy Fails with Some Sex Offenders: Learning Difficulties Examined Empirically, RON LANGEVIN, DENNIS MARENTETTE, BRUNO ROSATI; Chapter 9 Sex Offenders in Treatment: Variations in Remodeling and Their Therapeutic Implications, ROCHELLE A. SCHEELA;