Treating Sex Offenders

A Guide to Clinical Practice with Adults, Clerics, Children, and Adolescents, Second Edition

Letitia C Pallone, William E Prendergast

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317826156
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Psychology

Gain important new insights into religious personnel who molest children!

Treating Sex Offenders: A Guide to Clinical Practice with Adults, Clerics, Children, and Adolescents, Second Edition updates the groundbreaking original with new material that integrates adolescent and adult sex offenders, emphasizing similarities and differences in personality type, behavior, and treatment. Author William Prendergast draws on four decades' experience in working in the diagnosis and treatment of habitual sex offenders to present a straightforward look at what makes them tick. This vital new edition includes appropriate additions and changes to treatment techniques, progress reports on case study subjects, reader feedback on the original book, and perhaps most important, new information on religious personnel who molest children.

Treating Sex Offenders provides training in clear language for those working with sexual offenders and explanations in simple terms for those suffering as a result of their actions. The book parallels workshops and courses conducted by the author, detailing how to identify major characteristics and traits of offenders, different types of offenders, child and adolescent offenders, how to recognize warning signs of deviant behavior, and how to apply specific treatment techniques that really work. Individual aspects of the makeup and treatment of the compulsive adult and adolescent sex offender are addressed through factors, traits, treatment, and candid cases studies.

Treating Sex Offenders addresses the most vital issues involving sexual pathology, including:

• inadequate personality theory
• sexual performance problems
• imprinting
• self-confrontation
• sex as the chosen deviation
• the five c's of sex offender treatment
• and much more!

Treating Sex Offenders: A Guide to Clinical Practice with Adults, Clerics, Children, and Adolescents, Second Edition is an essential resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and those in the criminal justice field who deal with sex offenders on a daily basis. Family members involved in the lives of sex offenders and survivors of sexual abuse or assault will find the case studies enlightening in making sense of a tragic situation.

Appendix A

Answers to True-False Test
(Box 1.1)

 

  1.All adult sex offenders, regardless of offense, have major personality traits in common. True

  2.All adult sex offenders were themselves sexually victimized as children and this explains their behavior. False

  3.Sex offender pathology can be genetically linked. False

  4.Pedophiles and hebophiles have the same characteristics and prognosis for treatment success. False

  5.Fixated pedophiles may appear normal in their social, work, and interpersonal functions. True

  6.Hebophiles and incestuous fathers have many traits in common and a similar (and more positive) prognosis for treatment success. True

  7.The King-of-the-Castle syndrome is a major distinguishing characteristic of incestuous fathers. True

  8.Supportive and nonconfrontational treatment techniques work better with adult sex offenders than other treatment modalities. False

  9.Psychotherapy itself will produce positive results with both the adult and the adolescent sex offenders. False

10.Following their victimization, victims of sexual abuse have many traits in common with sex offenders. True

11.Adolescent sex offenders have the same traits as adult sex offenders. False

12.Adolescent sex offenders have no visible (i.e., detectable) signs of their problems. False

13.Peer relationship problems are a major factor in the development of adolescent sex offenders. True

14.Adolescent sex offenders always come from a home where there are problems. True

15.Of all the problems in the adolescent sex offender's life, lack of or poor communication is a major one. True

16.Treatment issues and techniques for the adolescent sex offender are identical to those for the adult sex offender. False

17.Parent(s) or guardian(s) must be an integral part of the adolescent sex offender's treatment. True

18.Supportive and nonconfrontational treatment techniques work better with adolescent sex offenders. False

19.A combination of individual and group therapy plus ancillary treatment modalities is the best complete treatment program for the adolescent sex offender. True

20.Both the adult and the adolescent sex offender can be cured with an intensive treatment program. False

Appendix B

Confidential Questionnaire

Instructions: This is a personal and confidential questionnaire that is necessary for me to help you in your therapy. Please answer all questions truthfully. Do not lie! If a particular questions is too embarrassing or upsetting to you at this time, answer with the codeword “Later.” Then when you are able to fill in this answer, just let me know and I will return the questionnaire to you.

There are some special instructions that I want you to follow:

1. Be sure your answers give all the details needed for me to understand your answer. Do not worry about language or spelling. Use words that you are comfortable with.

2. If there any words in the questions that you do not understand, please ask me (without disturbing anyone else).

3. Be sure to include your age in all questions that ask for it. If you are not sure, guess at the closest age you remember.

4. Remembering confidentiality laws, decide if you want to include names of other individuals you have been involved with.

5. Take all of the time you need. If you cannot finish in this session, you can continue in ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Author
• Boxed Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Section I: Identifying Sex Offenders
• Section II: Treatment of Sex Offenders
• Appendix A Answers to True-False Test (Box 1.1)
• Appendix B Confidential Questionnaire
• Bibliography
• Index