Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities : A Handbook

by Editor: Leam A. Craig (Forensic Psychology Practice Ltd); Co-Editor: William R. Lindsay (The State Hospital, NHS Tayside and Univ. of Abertay Dundee, Dundee, UK); Co-Editor: Kevin D. Browne (University of Nottingham)

• ISBN13: 9780470515921
• ISBN10: 0470515929
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

A practical handbook for practitioners that covers the assessment, treatment and management of sexual offenders with intellectual disabilities - an area of growing interest within clinical forensic psychology. New for the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology: a practical handbook that covers the assessment, treatment and management of sexual offenders with intellectual disabilities Summarises the research literature on the characteristics and prevalence of sexual offenders with intellectual disabilities Discusses risk assessment and innovations in treatment and management Includes contributors world-renowned in the field of assessment and treatment of sexual offenders with intellectual disabilities such as Tony Ward, Glynis Murphy, and Douglas Boer

Table of Contents

About the Editors

Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Overview and Structure of the Book

Sexual Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities: Characteristics and Prevalence

Developmental Pathways in Intellectually Disabled Sexual Offenders

Adolescents with Intellectual Disability and Family Sexual Abuse

Applying the Self-Regulation Model to Sexual Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities

Diagnostic Assessment and Comorbidity

Psychiatric Illness, Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Risk

Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders in People with Intellectual Disabilities

Risk Assessment

Assessing Recidivism Risk in Sex Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities

Psychopathy and other Personality Disorders in Sexual Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities

Suggested Adaptations to the HCR-20 for Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities

Suggested Adaptations to the SVR-20 for Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities

Assessing Treatment Need and Deviancy

Psychometric Assessment of Sexual Deviancy in Sexual Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities

Assessing Treatment Need in Sexual Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities

Provisions and Treatment

Staff Support and Development when Working with Sexual Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities

Community-Based Treatment Programmes for Sex Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities

The Treatment of Intellectually Disabled Sexual Offenders in the National Offender Management Service: The Adapted Sex Offender Treatment Programmes

Journeying to Wise Mind: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Offenders with an Intellectual Disability

Future Directions

Improving Service Provision for Intellectually Disabled Sexual Offenders

Index

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