Overview

Over the past ten years, the treatment of sex offenders has focused increasingly on behavioral and cognitive?behavioral treatments??relapse prevention (RP) among them. Designed for practitioners working at the front lines??hospitals, prisons, clinics??Relapse Prevention with Sex Offenders presents in detail a variety of RP assessment and treatment approaches that can be implemented in clinical practice. This uniquely practical volume highlights the ways in which RP treatment for sex offenders both resembles and differs from RP for other impulse control disorders. Following an introductory overview tracing the evolution of RP and its practical applications in sex offender therapy is a series of chapters exploring major problem areas. Examined here are specific high?risk situations for sex offenders, the sequence of the relapse process, problems of immediate gratification, and the abstinence violation effect of sexual fantasies. Subsequent chapters consider possible solutions to these problems: solutions through assessment of high?risk situations and coping skills and solutions through treatment. Identification of risk factors through clinical interviews, records analysis, and client autobiographies is described with unusual clarity, as is evaluation of coping skills by situational competency tests, self?efficacy ratings, and relapse fantasy analysis. In addition, a variety of specific skill training and global interventions are discussed, including relapse rehearsal, cognitive restructuring, and coping strategies for dealing with urges and cravings. Rounding out the comprehensive coverage are in?depth accounts of three major RP programs for sex offenders in the United States and an evaluation of initial outcome data. Relapse Prevention with Sex Offenders systematically presents and analyzes the core components of RP for this population. The first text to focus exclusively on relapse prevention for sex offenders, this authoritative compilation of current assessment and treatment approaches provides practitioners working in the field with a practical, step?by?step guide to established interventions.

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Author:   Laws.
Publisher:   Guilford Publications
Imprint:   Guilford Publications
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9780898623819

ISBN 10:   0898623812
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   25 December 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

George, Marlatt, Introduction. I. Problems. Marques, Nelson, Elements of High-Risk Situations for Sex Offenders. Jenkins-Hall, Marlatt, Apparently Irrelevant Decisions in the Relapse Process. Marlatt, Feeding the PIG: The Problem of Immediate Gratification. Russell, Sturgeon, Miner, Determinants of the Abstinence Violation Effect in Sexual Fantasies. II. Solutions: Assessment. A. High-Risk Situations. Pithers, Beal, Armstrong, Petty, Identification of Risk Factors through Clinical Interviews and Analysis of Records. Long, Wuesthoff, Pithers, Use of Autobiographies in the Assessment and Treatment of Sex Offenders. MacDonald, Pithers, Self-Monitoring to Identify High-Risk Situations. Laws, Direct Monitoring by Penile Plethysmography. Day, Miner, Sturgeon, Murphy, Assessment of Sexual Arousal by Means of Physiological and Self-Report Measures. B. Coping Skills. Miner, Day, Nafpaktitis, Assessment of Coping Skills: Development of a Situational Competency Test. Hall, Self-Efficacy Ratings. Sandberg, Marlatt, Relapse Fantasies. III. Solutions: Treatment. A. Specific Skills Training. Jenkins-Hall, The Decision Matrix. Nelson, Jackson, High-Risk Recognition: The Cognitive-Behavioral Chain. Steenman, Nelson, Viesti, Developing Coping Strategies for High-Risk Situations. Carey, McGrath, Coping with Urges and Craving. Hall, Relapse Rehearsal. Jenkins-Hall, Cognitive Restructuring. B. Global Interventions. Thompson, Lifestyle Interventions: Promoting Positive Addictions. Marlatt, How to Handle the PIG. Hildebran, Pithers, Enhancing Offender Empathy for Sexual-Abuse Victims. IV. Programs. Marques, Day, Nelson, Miner, The Sex Offender Treatment and Evaluation Project: California's Relapse Prevention Program. Jenkins-Hall, Osborn, C. Anderson, K. Anderson, Shockley-Smith, The Center for Prevention of Child Molestation. Pithers, Martin, Cumming, Vermont Treatment Program for Sexual Aggressors. V. Can Relapses be Prevented? Pithers, Cumming, Can Relapses be Prevented? Initial Outcome Data from the Vermont Treatment Program for Sexual Aggressors. Conclusion.

Reviews

An excellent compendium of practical procedures for increasing the likelihood of permanent self-control in treated sex offenders....Each chapter is rich in relevant detail for tackling this very complex process, and Laws has been able to impose an impressive degree of structure and integration on the material. -- Contemporary Psychology <br> A highly informative and practical resource for clinicians working with sexual offenders. It provides an excellent overview of the problems inherent in relapse prevention programming....Should be required reading for anyone working with the sexual offender population. -- Preventing Sexual Abuse <br>

An excellent compendium of practical procedures for increasing the likelihood of permanent self-control in treated sex offenders....Each chapter is rich in relevant detail for tackling this very complex process, and Laws has been able to impose an impressive degree of structure and integration on the material. -- Contemporary Psychology A highly informative and practical resource for clinicians working with sexual offenders. It provides an excellent overview of the problems inherent in relapse prevention programming....Should be required reading for anyone working with the sexual offender population. -- Preventing Sexual Abuse

"""An excellent compendium of practical procedures for increasing the likelihood of permanent self-control in treated sex offenders....Each chapter is rich in relevant detail for tackling this very complex process, and Laws has been able to impose an impressive degree of structure and integration on the material."" --""Contemporary Psychology"" ""A highly informative and practical resource for clinicians working with sexual offenders. It provides an excellent overview of the problems inherent in relapse prevention programming....Should be required reading for anyone working with the sexual offender population."" --""Preventing Sexual Abuse"""

Author Information

D. Richard Laws, PhD, is a psychologist with Adult Forensic Psychiatric Community Services in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and Coordinator of the Victoria Adult Sex Offender Management Program.

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