A Practitioner’s Guide to Working with Sexual Offenders, Families, and Victims. Demystifying Sexual Offences
This unique text aims to cover the many variations of presentations that a mental health professional needs to address in order to conduct effective work with sex offenders and alleged offenders, their victims, as well as their families and children.
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Infant Losses; Adult Searches - 2nd Edition
An innovative view of the development of psychopathology and sexual offending. In an exciting synthesis of neuroscience, developmental, and social psychology with forensic and criminal literature, it offers a fresh perspective as to the reasons that may precipitate some individuals into violent or sexual offences. The book is written for clinicians of all modalities, although its very readable style, make it accessible to anyone with an interest in this area.
A Trauma-Informed Understanding of Online Offending. Adult Losses from Adolescent Searches.
The covid pandemic of 2019 created the perfect storm for online sexual offences. With individuals trapped in their homes with only the Internet as access to the outside world, there became a tsunami of online sexual offences as (predominantly) men viewed indecent images of children online while viewing pornography, and had indecent conversations with children online via social media. It was considered that over a thousand individuals a month were being arrested (getting ‘the knock’) for online sexual offences over a two-year period, and thousands more were considered to have evaded the attention of the police. Although the number is considered to have dropped to about 850 a month, it is still a massive number. Vast policing resources were diverted to try and capture and arrest everyone, leading to logjams in the High Tech Crime Units investigating each individual’s (sometimes many) devices - phones, tablets, laptops, games consoles, etc - capable of accessing the Internet, followed by delays in The Crown Prosecution Service’s overview of potential charges, and then delays getting each individual through the courts. In some policing areas, it takes 3-4 years for an individual's journey through the Criminal Justice System, leading to the stress, anxiety and depression of long-term uncertainty and high suicidality. Did this mean that there was a huge number of covert paedophiles living in our midst? Did this mean that these arrests were making our children safer within our society? The answer to both questions is negative. A minority of these individuals would have groomed and arranged to meet a child or a teenager with evil intent. But the majority are viewers of imagery, trapped in an addictive process of Internet browsing and sexual arousal, changing the way they feel from their own hidden traumas of childhood. That is not to undermine the enormity of the trauma victimisation of the children within these images, but this book is written to try and put this Zeigeist into perspective, to try and understand from where this from omnipresent problem stems, as the paradox is that the punitive (and essentially unsuccessful) response to it is creating attachment injuries, trauma and psychological damage to the families and children of the offenders.
Sexual Diversity and Sexual Offending
Introducing an exciting and innovative edited text that helps health practitioners understand the contemporary ubiquitous presentations of sexual diversity that now occur within a therapeutic consultation. Internet cybersex has enabled individuals to be more open and explorative in their sexual repertoire than ever before, so therapists often find themselves working with clients presenting with issues of sexual diversity and sexual offending, sometimes with the latter being confused as being synonymous with the former.
Sex & Sexuality - Questions & Answers
This book, in the Whurr Questions and Answers series, bridges the gap between the counsellor and the specialist sex therapist, by providing answers to questions raised by patients or clients about sex, gender and sexuality.
Time-Limited Therapy
Time-Limited Therapy provides a specific set of skills, which enable a counsellor to cope successfully with the large number and wide range of referrals they can receive in primary care.
This book covers a range of difficulties commonly presented in primary care – such as anxiety, stress, bereavement and depression – and explains how problems not usually considered appropriate within a time-limited framework – such as eating disorders, medical complaints and abuse – can also be helped effectively.
