Treating Child Sex Offenders and Victims: A Practical Guide

by Anna C. Salter

Book Overview

Treating Child Sex Offenders and Victims is a practical manual designed to assist mental health professionals in the effective treatment of both victims and offenders through the development of specialized skills. The author discusses methods of treatment of offenders and includes an assessment battery, which measures their sexual attitudes. She also addresses ways of treating victims and minimizing trauma within the legal system. The volume...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803931824
• ISBN13: 9780803931824
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Clinical

Excellent information for practical guide for the treatment of adults and adolescents who cause sexual harm.

Practical and well written

Salter's book provides the reader with a concisely written guide to diagnosing and working with both Sex Offenders and their victims. She tackles a century worth of documentation on the subject of sex offenders managing to simultaneously dispel many of the fallacious arguments concerning the disorder while presenting a well informed description of most sex offenders. This book is particularly nice in that Salter uses many real cases from her practice to give the piece more clarity as well as a more human impact that many texts on the subject fail to provide. As a teacher, I found the section on "Identifying Sexually Abused Children" particularly useful. A great read!