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, behaviour, 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.
Key Features
- Training in clear language for those working with sexual offenders
- Explanations in simple terms for those suffering as a result of their actions
- Detailed identification of major characteristics and traits of offenders
- Insights into different types of offenders, including child and adolescent offenders
- Recognition of warning signs of deviant behaviour
- Specific treatment techniques that are effective
Additional Information
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. Individual aspects of the makeup and treatment of the compulsive adult and adolescent sex offender are addressed through factors, traits, treatment, and candid case studies.
Specifications
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!
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Treating Sex Offenders: A Guide to Clinical Practice with Adults, Clerics, Children, and Adolescents, Second Edition is an essential resource for psychiatrists.
