How to Work with Sex Offenders: A Handbook for Criminal Justice, Human Service, and Mental Health Professionals

How to Work with Sex Offenders: A Handbook for Criminal Justice, Human Service, and Mental Health Professionals - International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health

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Publisher's Synopsis

How to Work with Sex Offenders is a cutting edge, state-of-the-art book that provides mental health professionals best practice techniques on how to clinically evaluate, interview, and treat this challenging patient population. Successful models of individual, family, and group models of psychotherapy are provided for the reader. In addition, this handbook walks the reader through the investigation, arrest, prosecution and court hearing process, from start to finish. Thoroughly revised, this new edition builds on additional research data and new information, adding advanced chapters on female offenders, Internet offenders, pornography, sexual addiction, rape and child and adolescent sexual misconduct. This is a must-read work for undergraduate and graduate students, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judges, child protection service workers, therapists, and other professionals who work with sex offenders.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780415523325
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
Edition: Second Edition
DEWEY: 616.8583
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xvi, 290
Weight: 566g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 28mm