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Treatment of
High-Risk
Sexual Offenders
An Integrated Approach
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Jeffrey Abracen and Jan Looman
Dr Jeffrey Abracen is Chief
Psychologist with Central
District Parole, Correctional
Service of Canada. He has
provided training related to the
community treatment and
supervision of sexual offenders
to a variety of audiences and
has more than thirty
publications in peer-reviewed
journals, as well as many
conference presentations.
Dr Jan Looman is a psychologist
working on the Forensic Unit of
Providence Care Mental Health
Services in Kingston, Canada. He
has carried out training
regarding the assessment and
treatment of sex offenders at
various conferences and
workshops and has more than
thirty peer-reviewed
publications in this area.
The treatment and management of sexual offenders is a topic of
great interest, but while much has been written about the treatment
of sexual offenders generally, little has been written about the
comprehensive treatment of groups of specifically high risk sexual
offenders. Treatment of High-Risk Sexual Offenders addresses
concrete management strategies, from initial intake to community
treatment programs, and describes a detailed, complete program for
high risk offenders which has been developed, tested and refined
over 15 plus years, and has a strong empirical basis.
The model, which is based on the principle of integrative care, draws
on the established Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model for offender
assessment and rehabilitation but adds new components of CBT and
motivational interviewing. It gives specific consideration to the role of
mental disorder and complex trauma in the development and
maintenance of offending behaviour, areas which can often be
neglected. Given the complex nature of this population, treatment
focuses on both traditional criminogenic needs not specific to sexual
offenders (e.g. substance abuse, criminal thinking styles) and sex
offender specific issues (e.g. deviant arousal, intimacy deficits) in an
integrated approach. A variety of outcome data related to two sex
offender treatment programs managed by the authors, and described
in detail, is included in the text.
December 2015 280 pages
978-1-118-98017-0 Cloth $124.95 | £75.00
978-1-118-98016-3 Paper $59.95 | £34.99
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