Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families

<p>A comprehensive look at the many types of male and female sex offenders who victimize children adolescents and adults<br><br>Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families presents practitioners professionals and policymakers with effective user-friendly practice methods for working with all types of sex offenders. Each chapter provides an overview of a specific category of sex offender and presents case examples and sample treatment plans with short- and long-term goals and objectives. This unique book also includes the latest assessment and intervention methods family and relapse prevention efforts and cultural issues that affect service delivery.<br><br>Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families examines the etiology prevalence and behavioral consequences of eight different sex offender typologies to provide you with a much broader focus than you’ll find in other sex offender books currently on the market. The book explores gender issues demographics offense characteristics family characteristics and assessment issues in dealing with both male and female sex offenders who use psychological and physical means to victimize children adolescents and adults. The end result is effective as a reference for health and mental health practitioners as a resource for program implementation and outcome evaluation for policymakers and researchers and as a classroom aid for the next generation of social workers and health and mental health providers.<br><br>Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families examines:</p><ul> <li> child sex offendersinappropriate developmentally precocious and aggressive sexual behavior among children<br> </li> <li> adolescent sex offenderscriminal sexual acts committed by juveniles<br> </li> <li> adult male sex offendersthe average male sexual molester will victimize hundreds of children in his lifetime<br> </li> <li> women who sexually abuse childrenchallenging the stereotypes about motherhood and female-child relationships<br> </li> <li> professional perpetratorsclerics teachers tutors athletic coaches<br> </li> <li> intellectually and developmentally challenged sex offenderssexually abusive acts committed by people with intellectual disabilities (ID) <br> </li> <li> violent sex offendersphysical and psychological injuries suffered during sexual violation <br> </li> <li> comorbid psychopathology in child adolescent and adult sexual offendersanti-social narcissistic and sadistic behaviors learning problems neuropsychological impairments and more</li> </ul><p>Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families is an essential resource for anyone working with diverse groups of sex offenders.</p>