Anchor Counseling Sex Offender Treatment Program: A Manual and Workbook for Treatment of Sex Offenders - Softcover

Ross, James Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497428858 ISBN 13: 9781497428850

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

This manual is intended for use in the treatment of convicted sex offenders, either while incarcerated or in a community treatment program. It has been developed over many years by the author in his treatment of scores of sex offender clients. The core program includes nine tasks required of each client: (1) Life & Sexual Autobiography, (2) Ownership, (3) Victim Empathy, (4) Relapse Prevention, (5) & (6) Optional Tasks chosen by each client, (7) Restitution (8) Shame Resiliency, and (9) Final Group Review. The Ownership Task includes distinctive directions for each of four different types of offenders: (1) hands-on offenders, (2) possession/distribution of child pornography, (3) voyeurism and/or indecent exposure and (4) use of electronic means to contact a minor for sex.

About this title

About the Author

J. Robert (Bob) Ross, Ph.D. is the principal in Anchor Counseling & Consulting, which provides counseling for individuals and families and educational seminars for churches and schools. He received his education at Southeastern Louisiana University (B.S., 1962), Columbia Theological Seminary (B.D., 1962) and Emory University (Ph.D., 1969). He is a Kentucky Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a provider for sex offender treatment certified by the Kentucky Sex Offender Risk Assessment Advisory Board (SORAAB). Ross is the author of Freedom from Sexually Compulsive Behavior (2014), editor of The War Within: Violence or Nonviolence in the Black Revolution (Sheed and Ward, 1971); a contributor to The American Family: Life and Health (Third Party Associates, 1986) numerous articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines including Zygon, The Rotarian, The Restoration Quarterly, Christian Standard, and The Lookout. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and is a Past-President of the organization.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1497428858
• ISBN 13: 9781497428850
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 62