1st Edition

Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests A Practitioner's Guide

Edited By Geraldine Akerman, Derek Perkins, Ross Bartels Copyright 2021
310 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests: A Practitioner’s Guide provides a thorough review of atypical sexual interests and offers various ways through which they can be measured and controlled, including compassion-focused and psychoanalytic approaches. This unique guide presents a detailed analysis of deviant sexual interest. Part I, 'Assessment,' overviews the range of... Read more

Series Foreword

Richard Shuker

Foreword

Anthony Beech

Part 1: ASSESSMENT

Chapter 1. How do Sexual Interests Cluster and Relate to Sexual Offending Behaviours against Children?

Sarah Paquette & Sébastien Brouillette-Alarie

Chapter 2. Exploring and Assessing the Current Sexual Interest of Men who have Committed Sexual and Non-Sexual Violent Offences

Geraldine Akerman, Jennifer Hardy & Paul Hamilton

Chapter 3. The Role of PPG in Sexological Assessment and Treatment of sexual offenders: A Comparison of British and Czech practice

Derek Perkins, Marek Páv & Petra Skřivánková

Chapter 4. Using the Explicit and Implicit Sexual Interest Profile (EISIP) in Applied Forensic or Clinical Contexts

Alexander F. Schmidt & Derek Perkins

Chaper 5. Using the Rapid Serial Visual Presentation to Detect Sexual Interest

Angelo Zappalà & Pekka Santtila

Chapter 6. Using Eye-Related Measures to Assess Sexual Interest

Charlotte Wesson & Todd E. Hogue

Chapter 7. Sexual Fantasy Use as a Proxy for Assessing Deviant Sexual Interest

Ross M. Bartels

Part 2: MANAGEMENT

Chapter 8. The treatment of sexual deviance within a therapeutic setting

Jayson Ware, Meagan Donaldson & Danielle Matsuo

Chapter 9. Compassion and Acceptance as Interventions for Paraphilic Disorders and Sexual Offending Behaviour

Jamie S. Walton & Kerensa Hocken

Chapter 10. A psychoanalytic approach to paraphilic disorders, perversions and other problematic sexual behaviours

Jessica Yakeley

Chapter 11. Medication to Manage Problematic Sexual Arousal

Emma Marshall, Belinda Winder, Christine Norman & Nicholas Blagden

Part 3: APPROACHES TO ASSESSMENT & MANAGEMENT

Chapter 12. Introducing the Multi Component Framework of Female Sexual Offending

Rachel Worthington

Chapter 13. Trauma, Adverse Experiences, and Offence Paralleling Behaviour in the Assessment and Management of Sexual Interest

Lawrence Jones

Biography

Geraldine Akerman is a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist and Therapy Manager at HMP Grendon. She is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK and Honorary Professor of Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK and Chair Elect of the Division of Forensic Psychology.

Derek Perkins is a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist at Royal Holloway University of London, UK and Broadmoor Hospital, and Co-Director of ‘onlinePROTECT.’

Ross M. Bartels is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and member of the Forensic and Clinical Research Group at the University of Lincoln, UK.

‘For readers seeking new perspectives from established authors, this volume is the best to come along for several years. My copy will reside in the closest shelf to my desk.’ - David Prescott in Sexual Abuse, the official journal of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers