Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families

Provides practitioners and policy-makers with practice methods for working with various types of sex offenders. This book explores gender issues, demographics, offence characteristics, family characteristics, and assessment issues in dealing with sex offenders who use psychological and physical means to victimize children, adolescents and adults.

Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families examines: child sex offenders inappropriate, developmentally precocious, and aggressive sexual behavior among children adolescent sex offenders criminal sexual acts committed by juveniles adult male sex offenders the average male sexual molester will victimize hundreds of children in his lifetime women who sexually abuse children challenging the stereotypes about motherhood and female-child relationships professional perpetrators clerics, teachers, tutors, athletic coaches intellectually and developmentally challenged sex offenders sexually abusive acts committed by people with intellectual disabilities (ID) violent sex offenders physical and psychological injuries suffered during sexual violation comorbid psychopathology in child, adolescent, and adult sexual offenders anti-social, narcissistic, and sadistic behaviors, learning problems, neuropsychological impairments, and moreComprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families is an essential resource for anyone working with diverse groups of sex offenders.

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