Treating the Sexual Offender

This text presents a wide range of treatment modalities and techniques for use in either an outpatient or inpatient setting. It is particularly concerned with proper assessment techniques and fills the gaps in the behavioural approach to maladaptive sexual abuse disorders. Topics covered include initial assessment, aversive respondent conditioning, reconditioning, positive respondent conditioning, operant conditioning and adjunctive techniques. Each is described in sufficient detail so that the practitioner will be able to employ any specific technique in his or her own practice. Maletsky concludes with a discussion of future directions in behavioural treatment.