Sex Offender Treatment: A Case Study Approach to Issues and Interventions

Sex Offender Treatment: A Case Study Approach to Issues and Interventions offers practitioners and students a unique opportunity to view how offenders and offender issues are dealt with, by studying individual interventions undertaken by distinguished authorities in the field.  Chapters outline the case formulations of experts, their assessment processes, treatment and supervision undertaken with specific sexual offender types, as well as offering guidance to the reader as to how they might effectively deal with similar cases in their own professional work. Covering a broad range of sex offender populations and treatment issues, the book focuses on one–to–one engagement that can often be combined with a programme of group work. It allows practitioners to formulate intervention approaches for the majority of key sex offender types, and address the range of treatment challenges that are likely to be commonly encountered in practice. The case study approach provides a helpful vehicle for developing stronger links between research and practice, an issue previously overlooked in the field of sex offender assessment and treatment, and allows practitioners to benefit from the ‘hard won’ knowledge of significant figures in the field.

Daniel T. Wilcox is Managing Director of Wilcox Psychological Associates, a private clinical and forensic psychology practice.  He is a registered clinical and forensic psychologist, and honorary research fellow and lecturer at the University of Birmingham, Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology.  He is Editor of The Use of the Polygraph in Assessing, Treating and Supervising Sexual Offenders (Wiley, 2009).   Tanya Garrett is a registered clinical and forensic psychologist in private practice and an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology. Tanya’s published research relates to sexual violations in therapy and clinical psychology training, ethical issues in therapy, and sexual offender treatment and evaluation.   Leigh Harkins is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada. She has experience working in treatment groups for sexual offenders, completing psychological assessments in prisons and community criminal justice settings in Canada and the UK. Leigh′s published research focuses on sexual aggression, offender rehabilitation, and multiple perpetrator offending.