Treating the Sexual Offender [Paperback]

Enhanced public awareness of sexual abuse and an increase in the number of reported sexual abuse cases has put pressure on practitioners to develop effective treatments for offenders. The behavioural approach to treating offenders is flourishing, but clinicians sometimes lack sufficient knowledge of assessment techniques and of the wide variety of available treatment modalities. This volume fills these gaps in knowledge by describing a multitude of techniques for treating sexual offenders in either an outpatient or inpatient setting.Enhanced public awareness of sexual abuse and an increase in the number of reported sexual abuse cases has put pressure on practitioners to develop effective treatments for offenders. The behavioural approach to treating offenders is flourishing, but clinicians sometimes lack sufficient knowledge of assessment techniques and of the wide variety of available treatment modalities. This volume fills these gaps in knowledge by describing a multitude of techniques for treating sexual offenders in either an outpatient or inpatient setting.Introduction
The Development of Behavioral Techniques for the Sexual Offender
The Initial Assessment of the Sexual Offender - Kevin B McGovern
The Aversive Respondent Conditioning Techniques
The Reconditioning Techniques
The Positive Respondent Conditioning Techniques
The Operant Conditioning Techniques
Adjunctive Techniques
The Somatic Therapies
Homework Assignments
Data Generated by an Outpatient Sexual Abuse Clinic
Summary and Future Directions