Written for mental health professionals, this indispensable guide reviews the range of relevant literature covering issues in assessing child molesters. Fully updated, this volume directs the professional to the most current knowledge available on the subject in a compact, accessible form. Readers will learn from this resource which characteristics do and do not distinguish child molesters, which situational factors are related to molestation, which instruments are used in the assessment of child molesters, how assessment information is used to appraise risk and guide treatment, and all of the elements of a useful assessment report.
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Sexual offending is defined, following the Law Reform Commission of Canada (1978), as sexual contact with another person (including the touching of the sexual organs of another or the touching of another with one's sexual organs) without that person's consent. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonsex offenders, extrafamilial child molesters, phallometric assessment, extrafamilial offenders, heterosexual child molesters, incarcerated child molesters, phallometric testing, sexual recidivism, general recidivism, penile responses, sexual offenses against children, homosexual child molesters, violent recidivism, dynamic predictors, incest offenders, nonsexual violence, offense history, polygraph testing, deviant sexual arousal, discriminative validity, actuarial estimate, sexual offending, disordered offenders, index offense, deviant sexual behaviors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Sexual offending is defined, following the Law Reform Commission of Canada (1978), as sexual contact with another person (including the touching of the sexual organs of another or the touching of another with one's sexual organs) without that person's consent. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonsex offenders, extrafamilial child molesters, phallometric assessment, extrafamilial offenders, heterosexual child molesters, incarcerated child molesters, phallometric testing, sexual recidivism, general recidivism, penile responses, sexual offenses against children, homosexual child molesters, violent recidivism, dynamic predictors, incest offenders, nonsexual violence, offense history, polygraph testing, deviant sexual arousal, discriminative validity, actuarial estimate, sexual offending, disordered offenders, index offense, deviant sexual behaviors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Inventory of Drinking Situations by Helen M. Annis on page 33, and Back Matter
- Social Psychology in Back Matter
- Social Psychology in the '90s by Kay Deaux in Back Matter
- Abnormal Psychology by Gerald C. Davidson in Back Matter
- Studyguide for Abnormal Psychology by Barlow & Durand, ISBN 9780534581497 (Cram101 Textbook Outlines) by Cram101 Textbook Reviews in Back Matter
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- The Handbook of Clinical Intervention with Young People who Sexually Abuse by Gary O'Reilly on page 202
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