Children with Pervasive Developmental Disabilities (PDD) such as Asperger syndrome frequently engage in unusual behaviors, including favored rituals they repeat over and over. Accommodating the children with flexibility and tolerance is usually the best practice when the behaviors are safe, but inappropriate sexual touching requires an entirely different approach.

Craig Latham, Ph.D., a forensic and child psychologist, has written this practical, how-to booklet to help mental health professionals understand, assess, and treat problematic sexual behavior in children with pervasive developmental disorders. The booklet starts with an overview of the clinical features of children and teens described by the various PDD categories and then introduce a developmental framework to help parents and clinicians understand the function and meaning of a child’s or teen’s behavior. The booklet includes strategies to assess the complex risk presented by these kids and offers specific suggestions to manage this risk, offer effective treatment, and build a safer environment for each child.
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This easy-to-read, highly informative, and practical 28-page booklet for parents, teachers, school counselors, social workers, CASA, police, and anyone else who wants to understand children's sexual behaviors includes:
1) A definition of natural and healthy sexual behavior;
2) Twenty characteristics of problematic sexual behavior in children;
3) Charts: Sex and sexuality in preschool through fourth-grade children;
4) Has my child been sexually abused?
5) Do victims become perpetrators?
6) How serious is it if my child is engaging in problematic sexual behaviors?
7) A continuum of problematic sexual behaviors; and
8) Getting help for sexual behavior problems.

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Kleinleder and Evensen break new ground using the long-held tradition of sharing wisdom through story-telling. In the all-too-real but fictional story of Abi, her family, and a therapeutic sup- port group, adolescent girls learn to deal with having been sexually abused – as their family members and the larger community reacts to them. The learning is reinforced by 135 text boxes of information on techniques for dealing with emotions, hand-outs from the group, reminders, explanations, and tips.

Using a wide range of situations, issues, and coping strategies, and extraordinarily captivating writing, The Thursday Group portrays the effects of sexual abuse realistically, recognizing both pain and hope, damage and healing. It speaks a difficult truth with strength and integrity.

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Special Note: This offer is a pre-order price. The Prevention Sourcebook will not be available until Spring 2010.

This comprehensive volume brings together the expertise of leading practitioners, researchers, and policy makers to prevent sexual violence. Through a progression of nearly 30 chapters, the Sourcebook provides practical approaches to prevention and describes the underlying frameworks that support each approach.

The Sourcebook begins by introducing cutting edge prevention approaches along with a broad sampling of nationally recognized programs to illustrate the power of well designed prevention efforts. To foster the development of innovative new prevention programs, a section of the Sourcebook is dedicated to “how to” oriented approaches. The Sourcebook concludes with an examination of the role of cultural issues in the prevention of sexual violence and offers insights for influencing local and national policy change.

Chapters cover the spectrum of topics from internet safety, influencing public policy, and addressing sex offender notification practices, to creating effective prevention programming for children and teens, organizations, adults in the community, and young adults on college campuses. This Sourcebook is an essential tool for any professional who wants to incorporate the prevention of sexual violence into their practice or enhance the quality of existing services.

The Sourcebook draws upon the expertise of national leaders including, Ernie Allen, Cordelia Anderson, Lisa Aronson Fontes, Natalie Audage, Gerry Blasingame, Celia Brackenridge, Deborah Callins, Mandy Davis, David Delmonico, Deborah Donavan Rice, Trisha Folds-Bennett, John Foubert, Lisa Fujie Parks, Corinne Graffunder, Christine Gidycz, Lisa Green, Elizabeth Griffin, Jerry Hoover, Lee Ann Knox, Karen Lang, David Lee, Patrick Lemon, Mark Mannes, Patrick McGann, James Mercy, John Patterson, Carol Plummer, David Prescott, Darrin Rogers, Barbara Rawn, Janet Saul, Paul Schewe, Bob Shilling, Joan Tabachnick, Jeff Todahl, Sara Valensuela, Sandy Wurtele, and Julie Yagoda.

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Stages of Achievement is a set of four inter-related workbooks that assist in the treatment of sexually abusive or sexually troubled adolescents. Building from simpler ideas to more complex and richer concepts, the workbooks take youth through a series of guided exercises that touch on many of the most significant elements of treatment. An “Introduction to Treatment” focuses upon basic concepts and sets the foundation for the workbooks that follow. “Understanding Yourself” helps youth focus upon and understand emotions, behaviors, thoughts, and thinking errors. “Understanding Dysfunctional Behavior” identifies and works through behavioral cycles, safe behavior, and relapse prevention. “Hitting The Target: Making Change Permanent” addresses empathy, victim awareness, community service, communication skills, and healthy relationships.

Augmenting individualized treatment, the workbooks are designed to be used in community-based or residential care settings. The accompanying Clinician’s Guide will help guide therapists in their use of the workbooks, and includes supplemental tests to ensure retention of learning. Designed for use with adolescent boys of average cognitive abilities, the Guide offers concrete ideas for adapting the workbooks to other populations of sexually abusive youth.
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This ready-reference is perfect for teachers looking for new and different ways to prevent or defuse behavior problems in the classroom. Its simple, easy-to-implement strategies are grounded in research on the connection between the brain, learning, and behavior. The booklet describes 16 Smoothies, each with a sample scenario that can be used at all school grade levels, with one student or a group, and without disrupting classroom routines. Smoothies offer a variety of approaches ranging from enhancing sensory capacity and underlying brain neuro-physiology in a particular student to changing the classroom environment and the teacher’s style for a more positive impact on all students in a class. Although these brain-based strategies are a relatively new approach, every one has been used successfully by countless teachers across the country to de-escalate one unhappy child or to shift a whole classroom from negative to positive energy.

With this valuable guide to dramatically altering negative behavior, teachers can decrease their frustration and help students spend more time learning and less time in the principal’s office.

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This new book for male survivors offers a unique perspective about moving past the ways abusers can control a survivor's life for years after the abuse. Through exercises and assignments, survivors will learn how to retake control of their lives. Ken Singer offers clear insights and useful advice about how to support a victim's recovery. Professionals working with survivors (and perpetrators who were sexually abused) and their families will find this a useful addition to their library. Learn More

Current Perspectives represents the best thinking and practice from leaders and front-line workers who assess and treat sexually aggressive and abusive adolescents and young people with sexual behavior problems. With chapters ranging from considerations of diversity to ethics and developing integrity, from developmental concerns in pre-pubertal clients to girls with sexually abusive behaviors, from research on resilience to an examination of attachment styles, from drama therapy to neurological impacts, Current Perspectives is the best one-volume compendium available.

Drawing on the expertise of contributors including John Hunter, Toni Cavanagh Johnson, Susan Robinson, Tony Morrison, Judith Becker, Lisa Frey, William Friedrich, Jane Gilgun, Barbara Schwartz, Robert Prentky, Joann Schladale, Steve Bengis, Penny Cunninggim, and Martin Calder, among many others, editors Rob Longo and David Prescott offer the equivalent of a three-day seminar in print form. Every juvenile treatment program should make this rich resource available for its administrators, clinicians, protective service workers, and professionals working in the juvenile justice system.
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