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Working with young people who sexually abuse: new pieces of the jigsaw puzzle
- Author:
- CALDER Martin C.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 319p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
Collection of papers aiming to consolidate and extent the current knowledge and practice base in relation to young people who sexually abuse. Papers include: filling the theoretical reservoir of causal explanations; detection, diagnosis and treatment of paraphilic personality disorder; clinical assessment instruments that measure strengths and risks in children and families; recovery assessments with young people who sexually abuse; attachment and intimacy in young people who sexually abuse; a framework for a multiagency approach to working with young abusers; a conceptual framework for managing young people who sexually abuse; a psychoanalytical view of the relationship between fathers and their sons; a description of a community based project to work with young people who sexually abuse; developing groupwork with young people who sexually abuse; young abusers with learning difficulties; young people with Asperger's syndrome; the significance of trauma in problematic behaviour; dilemmas and potential work with sexually abusive young people in residential settings; and characteristics and treatment of adolescent sex offenders in the republic of Ireland.