Sexual Offender Treatment Controversial Issues

The knowledge base on sexual offender treatment has become so extensive that following established paths is no longer the only way to expand understanding and improve the assessment and treatment of clients.Written by established and recognised experts, Sexual Offender Treatment: Controversial Issues explores only the most current, novel and controversial issues in the field of sexual offender treatmentThis comprehensive text covers a wide range of issues, such as recidivism risk assessment, diagnostic problems, preparatory programs, psychopathy and online sexuality. The contributors to this book are speculative and provocative, yet base their controversial approaches on evidentiary findings.With fresh and alternative perspectives offered in each chapter, this volume aims to generate discussions and challenge the reader to reconsider their position on the issues. This innovative collection will appeal to all those working with sexual offenders in a range of capacities.

Bill Marshall is Director of Rockwood Psychological Services and Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Queens University, Canada. The author/editor of 12 books and over 200 papers, he is a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada.

Yolanda Fernandez is Clinical Director of Rockwood Psychological Services and also the Sexual Offender Treatment Program at Bath Institution (Canadian federal penitentiary). She has over 20 publications including 3 books.

Liam Marshall is an active researcher at Queens University. He has written book chapters and journal papers as well as conference presentations.

Gerris A. Serran is employed at Rockwood Psychological Services and the Sexual Offender Treatment Programme at Bath Institution (Canadian Federal Penitentiary). She has published several book chapters and journal artcles.

About the Editors

vii

List of Contributors

ix

Series Editors' Preface

xiii

Preface

xvii

Acknowledgements

xix

PART I: GENERAL ISSUES

1

(140)

Recidivism risk assessments: making sense of controversies

3

(14)

Dennis M. Doren

Stability and change: dynamic risk factors for sexual offenders

17

(16)

R. Karl Hanson

Diagnostic problems with sexual offenders

33

(12)

William L. Marshall

The civil commitment of sexual offenders: lessons learned

45

(16)

Anita Schlank

Sadistic sexual aggressors

61

(18)

Jean Proulx

Etienne Blais

Eric Beauregard

Online sexuality and online sexual problems: skating on thin ice

79

(14)

Al Cooper

Gale Golden

William L. Marshall

An attachment-theoretical revision of Marshall and Barbaree's Integrated theory of the etiology of sexual offending

93

(16)

Stephen W. Smallbone

Coping and mood in sexual offending

109

(16)

Geris A. Serran

Liam E. Marshall

Shame and guilt in child molesters

125

(16)

Michael Proeve

Kevin Howells

PART II: TREATMENT

141

(138)

New ideas in the treatment of sexual offenders

143

(16)

Tony Ward

Dawn Fisher

Sexual offender treatment for psychopaths: is it harmful?

159

(14)

Howard Barbaree

Calvin Langton

Edward Peacock

Schema-driven cognition in sexual offenders: theory, assessment and treatment

173

(14)

Ruth E. Mann

Jo Shingler

Focusing on the positive and avoiding negativity in sexual offender treatment

187

(12)

Yolanda M. Fernandez

Preparatory programs for sexual offenders

199

(12)

Liam E. Marshall

Heather M. Moulden

Putting ``behavior'' back into the cognitive-behavioral treatment of sexual offenders

211

(14)

Yolanda M. Fernandez

Jo Shingler

William L. Marshall

Collaboration in clinical work with sexual offenders: treatment and risk assessment

225

(16)

Jo Shingler

Ruth E. Mann

When one size doesn't fit all: the reformulation of relapse prevention

241

(14)

D. Richard Laws

Tony Ward

Appraising treatment outcome with sexual offenders

255

(20)

William L. Marshall

Conclusions and future directions

275

(4)

Index

279

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