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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Revised and updated in 2002, Enhancing Empathy helps clients work on developing their own empathy for others. The workbook clarifies in simple, concrete terms the difference between self-pity and empathy, details the effects of sexual abuse on victims, describes steps toward building empathy, warns about the four poisons that prevent empathy, describes in detail compassionate actions, and points the way toward a balanced life. Each chapter includes homework and exercises.

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Whatever inappropriate behaviors male clients present, chances are there are anger issues somewhere in the mix. Men & Anger (2000) is a classic text using relapse prevention techniques to teach effective anger management for men. Each chapter includes homework assignments and exercises. Learn More

Paths to Wellness (2001) focuses on clients who present with any of three major problem areas: alcohol and substance abuse; violent and assaultive behaviors with anger issues; and inappropriate, abusive, or illegal sexual behaviors. Written in language that is easy to read and understand, the book can be used by both adolescent and adult clients and patients in conjunction with inpatient and community-based treatment programs, self-help groups, and in other settings. This unique guide teaches readers to understand their unhealthy cycles of acting out and how to move into healthy lifestyles. Chapter topics include accepting problems, denial, the four basic needs, the four aspects of self, core values and beliefs, healthy and unhealthy cycles, relapse prevention, interventions, and more, including homework assignments and exercises with each chapter. If your program has funding for only one treatment resource, this is the book. Learn More

Few approaches to sex offender management/treatment attempt to be transformative, choosing instead to teach skills, change thinking and manage behaviors. But Tom Keating has chosen to challenge his clients not only to manage themselves but to transform the way they approach life. RESPECT is both a philosophy of living and a very specific set of exercises and approaches to help youth who have abused move to abuse-free lives. This is not a "manual", albeit there are specific steps in the process. To make RESPECT work, the clinician using the approach must have integrated its principles as deeply as his/her clients. RESPECT begins with a “bow”, a simple gesture with profound meaning, as recognized in every martial arts tradition. RESPECT is action, and integrity, a “way” to finding SELF and in the journey learning to RESPECT another and live without abusing. RESPECT is seven steps, that integrate elements of Relapse Prevention, Thinking Errors work and mulit-sensory and brain-based approaches to learning. RESPECT has helped young people both in the U.S. and abroad. The Clinician’s Manual and the Student Workbook with CD help both practitioner and client embark on this journey together. As the author states in his preface: I hope that this work will convey the essence of RESPECT to you, and I bow to you in mutual RESPECT for the invaluable work that you are doing. Learn More

Focusing on treatment and assessment issues and the clinical implications of cybersex, this authoritative compilation provides mental health professionals with an analysis of empirical evidence and research on the impact of the Internet use on couples and families, gay men, people with disabilities, children, and the workplace. Edited by one of the leading researchers, clinicians and authors in the complex field of sex and the Internet, this book informs and provides practical and concrete suggestions and directions. Learn More

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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This Manual and Workbook set brings the theory and tools for conscience development into traditional treatment practice.

Conscience theory brings together five domains of moral development and functioning: attachment; moral-emotional responsiveness; personal value systems; values in action; and conscience. Niki Delson’s work addresses a major task in treating patients with sexual behavior and sexual aggression problems by teaching therapists and treatment providers how to work with conscience and conscience development with a 16-week curriculum. Learn More

Conscience theory brings together five domains of moral development and functioning: attachment; moral-emotional responsiveness; personal value systems; values in action; and conscience. Niki Delson’s work addresses a major task in treating patients with sexual behavior and sexual aggression problems by teaching therapists and treatment providers how to work with conscience and conscience development with a 16-week curriculum. Learn More