Sexual Offender Treatment Controversial Issues

by Marshall, William L.; Fernandez, Yolanda; Marshall, Liam; Serran, Geris

• ISBN13: 9780470867747
• ISBN10: 0470867744
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-28
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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