How to Work with Sex Offenders

How to Work with Sex Offenders is a cutting edge, state-of-the-art book that provides mental health professionals best practice techniques on how to clinically evaluate, interview, and treat this challenging patient population. Successful models of individual, family, and group models of psychotherapy are provided for the reader. In addition, this handbook walks the reader through the investigation, arrest, prosecution and court hearing process, from start to finish. Thoroughly revised, this new edition builds on additional research data and new information, adding advanced chapters on female offenders, Internet offenders, pornography, sexual addiction, rape and child and adolescent sexual misconduct. This is a must-read work for undergraduate and graduate students, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judges, child protection service workers, therapists, and other professionals who work with sex offenders.

The Sex Offender: An Introduction. The Criminal Justice System. Courts, Judges, Prosecutors, and Probation and Parole Officers. The Human Services System. The Mental Health Professional. Paraphilias. Sex Offender Characteristics. Internet Sex Offender. Sexual Addiction. Female Sex Offenders. Rape and Child Molestation. Children & Adolescents Who Display Sexual Misconduct Behavior. Individual Psychotherapy. Family Therapy. Group Therapy.