Letitia C Pallone, William E Prendergast

Treating Sex Offenders

A Guide to Clinical Practice with Adults, Clerics, Children, and Adolescents, Second Edition

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Produktbeschreibung

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. To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9780789009302
• ISBN-10: 0789009307
• Artikelnr.: 22339443

Autorenporträt

Letitia C Pallone

Inhaltsangabe

List of Boxed Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
SECTION I: IDENTIFYING SEX OFFENDERS
Chapter 1. Distinguishing Characteristics of Sex Offenders: The Who of Treatment
Introduction
A Clinically Derived Table of Traits
The Obsessive-Compulsive Pattern
The Question of Choice
The Child/Adolescent Sex Offender
Impulsive versus Compulsive
Chapter 2. The Inadequate Personality
Introduction
The Effect of Adolescent Sexual Crisis
Modes of Pathological Adjustment in Adulthood
The Child/Adolescent Sex Offender
Chapter 3. The Never-Satisfied Parent: Negative Self-Image and Selective Perception
Introduction
Perfectionism and the Fear of Failure Syndrome
Treatment Considerations
New Image Dangers
Selective Perception
The Child/Adolescent Sex Offender
Chapter 4. Exaggerated Needs for Control
Control Methods of Exhibitionists and Voyeurs
Control Methods of Pedophiles and Hebophiles
Control Methods in Sexually Assaultive Persons
Rage-Triggering Techniques
The Child/Adolescent Sex Offender
Chapter 5. Pervasive Guilt and Subjective Judgment
Rulers and Subjective Judgment Memories
Guilt As a Block to Therapeutic Progress
Judgment versus Curiosity
The Child/Adolescent Sex Offender
Chapter 6. Relational Issues
Passive and Aggressive Personalities
Severely Impaired Interpersonal Relationships
The Sex Offender's Inability to Relate to Peers
The Dangers of Symptom Removal
Repression and Trauma-Induced Compulsion
Emotions Suppressed or Displaced
The Child/Adolescent Sex Offender
Chapter 7. Sexual Performance Problems
Strong Performance Needs
The Sex Offender's Use of Masturbation
The Unrealistic Small Penis Complex
Distorted Sexual Values
Deviant Arousal Patterns
The Child/Adolescent Sex Offender
Chapter 8. Remaining Characteristic Deficits in Sex Offenders
Defective Goal-Setting Patterns
Identity Confusion
The Child/Adolescent Sex Offender
Typology of Adolescent Sex Offenders
The Remainder of the Adolescent Sex Offender Trait List
SECTION II: TREATMENT OF SEX OFFENDERS
Chapter 9. Treatment Issues: Overview
Introduction
The Important First Contact
Clinical Interviewing Principles
Terms
Group versus Individual Treatment
The Child/Adolescent Sex Offender
Chapter 10. The Five Cs of Sex Offender Treatment
Confrontation by the Therapist
Cautions
Confirmation
Control
Continuation/Consistency
The Child/Adolescent Sex Offender
Chapter 11. Sexual ?Imprinting? As a Consequence of Early Traumatic Molestation
Introduction
Unwanted Sexual Reactions/Turn-Ons
Common Factors Found in Imprinting
Questions About Etiology
Therapeutic Considerations and Caveats
Imprinting in Sex Offenders
Offender Patterns
Prevention
The Child/Adolescent Sex Offender
Chapter 12. Pedophiles
Background
Pedophiles versus Hebophiles
Pedophiles versus Incestuous Fathers
Treatment Considerations
Therapist Cautions
The Child/Adolescent Sex Offender
Prevention
Chapter 13. Sexually Assaultive versus Seductive Offenders
Control: The Main Dynamic
Why Rape?
Repression
Rape As Overcompensation for Perceived Male Sexual Inadequacy
The Child/Adolescent Sex Offender
Chapter 14. The Sex Offender's Motivation May Not Be Sexual
Power/Domination Needs
Seduction/Acceptance Needs
Ritual Undoing Needs
The Danger of Symptom Substitution
Masturbatory Reconditioning
The Child/Adolescent Sex Offender
Prevention
Chapter 15. A ?Whole-Man? Approach to Treatment
Introduction
Group Psychotherapy
Sex Education
Social Skills Training (SST)