Sex Offender Treatment: A Case Study Approach to Issues and Interventions

Wilcox, Daniel T.

ISBN 10: 1118674413 / ISBN 13: 9781118674413

Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2014

About this Item

Sex Offender Treatment is an innovative case study-based guide to the treatment of sexual offenders, offering direct access to the insights and experience of experts in the field. The book describes case formulations, assessment processes, and treatment undertaken with specific sexual offender types. Editor(s): Wilcox, Daniel T.; Garrett, Tanya; Harkins, Leigh. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: JMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 173 x 24. Weight in Grams: 810. . 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sex Offender Treatment: A Case Study Approach to Issues and Interventions
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118674413
• ISBN 13: 9781118674413
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Sex Offender Treatment is an innovative case study-based guide to the treatment of sexual offenders, offering direct access to the insights and experience of experts in the field. The book describes case formulations, assessment processes, and treatment undertaken with specific sexual offender types.

• Takes an innovative case study approach to sexual offender assessment and treatment, sharing practical insights and real-world experience in a challenging field
• Coverage is organized by key offender populations and includes bipolar offenders, child sexual abusers, Internet offenders, psychopathic offenders, personality disordered offenders and female offenders
• This distinctive approach aids trainee and novice workers to recognise key treatment issues, and plan and implement courses of therapeutic engagement and intervention to improve offender self-control
• Contributors include Bill Marshall, Leam Craig, Phil Rich, Bill Lindsay and Tony Ward

About the Author

Daniel T. Wilcox is Managing Director of Wilcox Psychological Associates, a private clinical and forensic psychology practice.  He is a registered clinical and forensic psychologist, and honorary research fellow and lecturer at the University of Birmingham, Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology.  He is Editor of The Use of the Polygraph in Assessing, Treating and Supervising Sexual Offenders (Wiley, 2009).

Tanya Garrett is a registered clinical and forensic psychologist in private practice and an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology. Tanya’s published research relates to sexual violations in therapy and clinical psychology training, ethical issues in therapy, and sexual offender treatment and evaluation.

Leigh Harkins is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada. She has experience working in treatment groups for sexual offenders, completing psychological assessments in prisons and community criminal justice settings in Canada and the UK. Leigh's published research focuses on sexual aggression, offender rehabilitation, and multiple perpetrator offending.