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Gain important new insights into religious personnel who molest children! 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. Treating Sex Offenders provides training in clear language for those working with sexual offenders and explanations in simple terms for those suffering as a result of their actions. The book parallels workshops and courses conducted by the author, detailing how to identify major characteristics and traits of offenders, different types of offenders, child and adolescent offenders, how to recognize warning signs of deviant behavior, and how to apply specific treatment techniques that really work. Individual aspects of the makeup and treatment of the compulsive adult and adolescent sex offender are addressed through factors, traits, treatment, and candid cases studies. Treating Sex Offenders addresses the most vital issues involving sexual pathology, including: inadequate personality theory sexual performance problems imprinting self-confrontation sex as the chosen deviation the five c's of sex offender treatment and much more! Treating Sex Offenders: A Guide to Clinical Practice with Adults, Clerics, Children, and Adolescents, Second Edition is an essential resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and those in the criminal justice field who deal with sex offenders on a daily basis. Family members involved in the lives of sex offenders and survivors of sexual abuse or assault will find the case studies enlightening in making sense of a tragic situation.

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Author:   Letitia C Pallone ,  William E Prendergast
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.20cm
Weight:   0.725kg
ISBN:  

9780789009302

ISBN 10:   0789009307
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   22 December 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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)

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