Sex Offender Treatment: A Case Study Approach to Issues and Interventions

By Leigh Harkins and Tanya Garrett

Book Overview

Sex Offender Treatment is an innovative case study-based guide to the treatment of sexual offenders, offering direct access to the insights and experience of experts in the field. The book describes case formulations, assessment processes, and treatment undertaken with specific sexual offender types. Takes an innovative case study approach to sexual offender assessment and treatment, sharing practical insights and real-world experience in a challenging field Coverage is organized by key offender populations and includes bipolar offenders, child sexual abusers, Internet offenders, psychopathic offenders, personality disordered offenders and female offenders This distinctive approach aids trainee and novice workers to recognise key treatment issues, and plan and implement courses of therapeutic engagement and intervention to improve offender self-control Contributors include Bill Marshall, Leam Craig, Phil Rich, Bill Lindsay and Tony Ward

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118674405
• ISBN13: 9781118674406
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.7"