Examine the major advances in sexual offender treatment over the last decade and promising new concepts in treatment, supervision, and research Sex Offender Treatment: Accomplishments, Challenges, and Future Directions points the way toward humane, dignified, effective treatment regimes for sexual offenders. In addition to providing an essential overview of the current state of sex offender treatment, this book examines vital areas of service provision and research and points to future directions for the field. On the medical/psychological front, this volume explores the importance of recognizing comorbid psychiatric factors in treatment and of exploring central nervous system function's role as a cause of sexually inappropriate behavior. In the legislative/justice arena it illustrates a Circles of Support proposal that mobilizes community resources to aid the adjustment of released offenders rather than branding them as dangerous to the community. And in the area of service provision, this book presents a treatment approach for residential programs that is inspired by research on childhood behavioral problems and special education. This book will increase your effectiveness with: a model of multisystemic treatment for juvenile sex offenders a restorative justice approach for reintegrating adult offenders into the community a study of the physical/mental correlates of organic brain dysfunction a case report on the use of a pharmaceutical treatment (leuprolide acetate) for pedophiles
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN-13
9780789019820
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95655589
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Biological Psychology
Author
Michael Miner, Edmond J Coleman
Publication Name
Sex Offender Treatment: Accomplishments, Challenges and Future Directions
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Psychology
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
140 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
408g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Michael Miner, Edmond J Coleman
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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