Main description:

A comprehensive look at the many types of male and female sex offenders who victimize children, adolescents, and adults

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.

Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families examines the etiology, prevalence, and behavioral consequences of eight different sex offender typologies to provide you with a much broader focus than you'll find in other sex offender books currently on the market. The book explores gender issues, demographics, offense characteristics, family characteristics, and assessment issues in dealing with both male and female sex offenders who use psychological and physical means to victimize children, adolescents, and adults. The end result is effective as a reference for health and mental health practitioners, as a resource for program implementation and outcome evaluation for policymakers and researchers, and as a classroom aid for the next generation of social workers and health and mental health providers.

Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families examines:

child sex offendersinappropriate, developmentally precocious, and aggressive sexual behavior among children

adolescent sex offenderscriminal sexual acts committed by juveniles

adult male sex offendersthe average male sexual molester will victimize hundreds of children in his lifetime

women who sexually abuse childrenchallenging the stereotypes about motherhood and female-child relationships

professional perpetratorsclerics, teachers, tutors, athletic coaches

intellectually and developmentally challenged sex offenderssexually abusive acts committed by people with intellectual disabilities (ID)

violent sex offendersphysical and psychological injuries suffered during sexual violation

comorbid psychopathology in child, adolescent, and adult sexual offendersanti-social, narcissistic, and sadistic behaviors, learning problems, neuropsychological impairments, and more

Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families is an essential resource for anyone working with diverse groups of sex offenders.

Contents:

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