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 ...
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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. To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at ...
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Very good. Ex-library. xxi, 331 p.; 22 cm. LCCN 2002153152 Type of material Book Personal name Prendergast, William E. Main title Treating sex offenders: a guide to clinical practice with adults, clerics, children, and adolescents / William E. Prendergast. Edition 2nd ed. Published/Created New York: Haworth Press, c2004. Description xxi, 331 p.; 22 cm. ISBN 0789009307 (hard cover: alk. paper) 0789009315 (soft cover: alk. paper) LC classification RC560. S47 P74 2004 Related names Prendergast, William E. Treating sex offenders in correctional institutions and outpatient clinics. Contents Distinguishing characteristics of sex offenders: the who of treatment--The inadequate personality--The never-satisfied parent: negative self-image and selective perception--Exaggerated needs for control--Pervasive guilt and subjective judgment--Relational issues--Sexual performance problems--Remaining characteristic deficits in adult offenders--Treatment issues: overview--The five cs of sex offender treatment--Sexual "imprinting" as a consequence of early traumatic molestation--Pedophiles--Sexually assaultive versus seductive offenders--The sex offender's motivation may not be sexual--A "whole-man" approach to treatment--Why sex as the "chosen" deviation? --An overview of value formation--Self-confrontation and resistance in the compulsive sex offender--Religious personnel who molest children and adolescents. LC Subjects Sex offenders--Rehabilitation. Psychosexual disorders--Treatment. Other Subjects Pedophilia--rehabilitation. Sex Offenses--prevention & control. Psychotherapy--methods. Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological--rehabilitation. Notes Rev. ed. of: Treating sex offenders in correctional institutions and outpatient clinics. c1991. Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-311) and index. Series Haworth criminal justice, forensic behavioral sciences & offender rehabilitation Dewey class no. 616.85/83 NLM class no. WM 610 P926t 2003 Other system no. (DNLM)101158376
