Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests: A Practitioner's Guide (Issues in Forensic Psychology)

✍ Scribed by Geraldine Akerman (editor), Derek Perkins (editor), Ross Bartels (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 311
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 sexual interests and fantasies in men and women. Part II, 'Management,' investigates the cutting-edge tools, approaches, interventions, and treatment advances used in a variety of settings to control deviant sexual interest. In Part III, 'Approaches to assessment and management', the authors consider how females with sexual convictions can be assessed and how offence paralelling behaviour can be used for assessment and treatment. Throughout, Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests offers necessary perspectives and emerging research from international experts at the forefront of this field.

With a thorough assessment of current research and a critical overview of treatment advances for problematic sexual interests, Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests is an essential resource for clinical and forensic psychologists, probation officers, academics, students working in the field, and members of allied professional fields.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Contributors
Series foreword by
Foreword by
PART I: Assessment
1. How do sexual interests cluster and relate to sexual offending behaviours against children?
Introduction
The current study
Conclusion
References
2. Exploring and assessing the current sexual interest of men who have committed sexual and non-sexual violent offences
Introduction
Background
Method
Procedure
Results
References
3. The role of PPG in sexological assessment and treatment of sexual offenders: a comparison of British and Czech practice
Introduction
Materials and methods
Results
Discussion: comparison of both practice systems
Conclusion
References
4. Using the Explicit and Implicit Sexual Interest Profile in applied forensic or clinical contexts
Paraphilic interests in forensic contexts
Indirect latency-based measures of sexual interest in children
Testing single cases with the Explicit and Implicit Sexual Interest Profile
Using the Explicit and Implicit Sexual Interest Profile in court
Conclusion
Notes
References
5. Using the Rapid Serial Visual Presentation to detect sexual interest
Why it is important to detect deviant sexual interest and how to detect it
Attention-based measurement procedures
Rapid Serial Visual Presentation procedure
The attentional blink phenomenon
Dual-target Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (dtRSPV) as an attention-based measurement procedure to detect Deviant Sexual Interest (DSI)
Future directions
Notes
References
6. Using eye-related measures to assess sexual interest
Previously used assessments for sexual preference
Measuring sexual preference with eye-tracking
Measuring sexual preference using pupil dilation
Limitations to eye-tracking
Key conclusions and summary of recommendations for best practice
References
7. Sexual fantasy use as a proxy for assessing deviant sexual interest
Introduction
Sexual fantasy versus sexual fantasizing
The role of sexual fantasizing in sex offending
Assessing sexual fantasy use
Issues and recommendations
Conclusion
Note
References
PART II: Management
8. The treatment of sexual deviance within a therapeutic setting
Introduction
Treatment philosophy
Description of strategies and exercises
Summary
References
9. Compassion and acceptance as interventions for paraphilic disorders and sexual offending behaviour
First wave
Second wave
The third wave: principles of relational frame theory and an evolutionary functional perspective
ACT and CFT and their potential usefulness as therapies for paraphilia and offending
ACT
CFT
A brief summary of ACT and CFT outcomes in mental health
Compassion and acceptance integrated into contemporary rehabilitation practice
Conclusion
Note
References
10. A psychoanalytic approach to paraphilic disorders, perversions and other problematic sexual behaviours
Introduction
Forensic psychotherapy
Paraphilias, paraphilic disorders and perversions – diagnostic controversy and confusion
Psychoanalytic theories of perversion
Perversion and paraphilic disorders: a contemporary clinical theory
Psychoanalytically informed treatment of paraphilic disorders and perversions
Challenges of treatment
Conclusion
Notes
References
11. Medication to manage problematic sexual arousal
Introduction
Measurements of problematic sexual arousal
Clinical interviews
Self-report measures of symptoms
Self-report measures of consequences
Comorbidity and wellbeing
Psychological treatment of individuals convicted of sexual offences
Medication to manage problematic sexual arousal
Types of medication
Hormonal therapy medications
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
Side effects of medication
Medication guidelines
Evidence of effectiveness
Conclusion
References
PART III: Approaches to assessment and management
12. Introducing the multi-component framework of female sexual offending
The extent of the problem – female perpetrators and their victims
Females who offend using the Internet
Theories of female sexual offending
Gender equivalence
Gendered perspectives – what does it mean to be female?
Treatment
Female sexual offending – where are we now?
Introducing the multi-component framework of female sexual offending
Conclusion
References
13. Trauma, adverse experiences, and offence-paralleling behaviour in the assessment and management of sexual interest
Developmental accounts of offending
Internal working models
Links between trauma and offending
Offence paralleling behaviour, trauma and the self-regulation model
Trauma triggers
Trauma triggers and OPB linked to sexual interest risk domains
Sexual preoccupation
Sexual preference for prepubescent or pubescent children
Sexualized violence
Paraphilic interest
Illustrative fictional case example – Chris
Conclusion
References
Index