Sex-Offender Therapy

Groundbreaking information for treating sex offenders Sexual abuse, sexual addiction, and sexual offending have become a significant clinical problem. Successfully treating these disorders is the first step toward preventing future victims. Sex-Offender Therapy is a practical workbook for clinicians who deal with sexually aggressive adults, adolescents, and children. This invaluable professional resource focuses on how to treat patients male and female impaired by sexual addiction,...
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Groundbreaking information for treating sex offenders Sexual abuse, sexual addiction, and sexual offending have become a significant clinical problem. Successfully treating these disorders is the first step toward preventing future victims. Sex-Offender Therapy is a practical workbook for clinicians who deal with sexually aggressive adults, adolescents, and children. This invaluable professional resource focuses on how to treat patients male and female impaired by sexual addiction, sexual disorders, sex offending, and other sexual misconduct behaviors. Designed as an accessible step-by-step guide, Sex-Offender Therapy features case studies, work exercises, and clinical suggestions that help to walk the reader through a sexual disorders program. With a wealth of therapeutic interventions, as well as information on polygraph testing and the FDA-approved plethysmograph, this unique text breaks new ground. Additionally, this detailed volume not only presents clinical definitions of all the sexual disorders but goes beyond patient features and evaluation to look at useable, concrete methods for lasting treatment. Topics discussed in Sex-Offender Therapy include:problems, stress, and boundary settingtransference and countertransferencesexual recovery therapy and its techniquesacknowledgement and responsibilitythe stand-up presentation and victim empathycycles of offendingusing the four phases as a relapse prevention formatworking with the difficult offendertrauma in adult, adolescent, and child offendersthe cost of offendingantisocial disordered patientstriggersclinical interviewing and report writingadult and juvenile psychosexual evaluationspolygraph testingtreatment of sexually aggressive youthsdefense behaviorsgroup therapyand many more!Informative, practical, and user-fr