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Identifying and Treating Youth Who Sexually Offend - Current Approaches, Techniques, and Research (Hardcover)
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Identifying and Treating Youth Who Sexually Offend - Current Approaches, Techniques, and Research (Hardcover)
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What factors contribute to the making of a youthful sexual
offender? This book is designed to assist professionals working
with youth who sexually offend. A distinguished panel of experts
discusses the latest research and provides theory, techniques, and
practical guidelines for the assessment and treatment of this
challenging population. Identifying and Treating Youth Who Sexually
Offend: Current Approaches, Techniques, and Research lays an
essential foundation with a theoretical overview that frames the
subject in a clear, easy-to-follow style. This section includes: a
comprehensive overview of the controversies, definitions, and
salient characteristics of youth who sexually offend that that
provides an understanding of the factors believed to be related to
sex offending among youth as well as an up-to-date review of
current theory an examination of an etiological model that is
frequently applied to adult sex offenders is it applicable for use
with youthful offenders?The second section of Identifying and
Treating Youth Who Sexually Offend tackles the challenges
professionals face when conducting assessments of sexually abusive
youth.This section is designed to help the clinicians of today and
tomorrow become better equipped to handle the daunting task of
assessment from choosing assessment tools to decreasing denial with
specific interviewing techniques.Readers will learn: how to
distinguish subtypes among this population with a research review
and comparative descriptions of clinical and empirical typologies
as well as discussion of the Trauma Outcome Process model and
practical examples for clinicians how to predict the rate of
re-offense among youth who sexually offend, with a review of five
risk assessment methods and four scales plus directions for using
them includes the Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol
(JSOAP), the Protective Factors Scale (PFS), and the Estimate of
Risk of Adolescent Sex Offender Recidivism (ERASOR) the nuts and
bolts of the interviewing and clinical assessment phase of
treatment a look at effective interviewing strategies, the process
of change, and the stages of change model the importance of family
therapy in the treatment of these youth ways to include parents in
relapse prevention planning and ways to handle treatment providers'
misconceptions and concerns about including family therapy in this
type of treatment cognitive-behavioral treatment models for use in
outpatient settings with treatment strategies directed toward
various individual or family clinical targets, including
psychological dysfunctions, sexual deviance, adolescent development
and adaptive skills, and parent/family relationships an integrated
(holistic) experiential approach to treatment, complete with sample
exercises and a discussion of the pros and cons of many current
treatment modalities a multi-family group therapy (MFGT) approach
with a look at this powerful intervention mode's advantages,
including economic benefits, family-to-family support and
mentoring, community-based resourcefulness, and accelerated
catalyzing of emotions, and directions for how to establish a MFGT
format for treatment current practices in residential treatment for
adolescent sex offenders policies, testing and assessment
procedures, therapeutic approaches used, number of males and
females in treatment, etc.The final section of Identifying and
Treating Youth Who Sexually Offend explores what happens to youth
who sexually offend after they leave treatment.This includes: a
survey of the literature on recidivism an evaluation of the
effectiveness of treatment of 644 juvenile sex offenders through
the meta-analysis of 10 studies with encouraging results a look at
the life experiences of a samp
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