Social Work with Sex Offenders
β Cowburn, Malcolm, Myers, Steve
π Library
π
2016
π Policy Press
π English
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Social Work with Sex Offenders: Making a Difference
β Scribed by Malcolm Cowburn; Steve Myers
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 210
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This topical book engages with a wide range of issues related to social work practice with people who have sexually offended. It addresses the emotional impacts of βfacing the sex offenderβ, the importance of values and ethics in practice, and reviews popular and academic understandings of sex offenders and sex crimes. Its accessible style and use of practice based learning exercises will help readers to reflect on theory, practice and developing emotional resilience.
β¦ Table of Contents
Social work with sex offenders
Contents
List of tables and figures
Tables
Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: constructing sex crimes and sex offenders
Introduction
Values and terminologies
Underpinning value base of the book
Naming the person committing sexual harm
Naming the person harmed by sex offences
Naming acts of sexual harm
Social worker identities
Author identities
The influence of the news media: seeing through the folk devil and the moral panic
Understanding denial
Recognising the emotional impacts of working with sex offenders
Structure of book
Summary
2. Understanding sex crimes and sex offenders
Introduction
A note on epistemology
Victim perspectives
Understanding sex crimes
Understanding sex offenders
Summary
3. Penal responses to the sex offender
Introduction
Understanding punishment
Sentencing the sex offender
Retributive responses
Consequentialist responses
Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements
Communicative responses: the challenge ofrestorative justice
Civil law
Summary
4. Working together: policy into practice
Introduction
Safeguarding
Safeguarding adults
Making a safeguarding enquiry
Safeguarding children and young people
Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub
Developing public safety
When multi-agency working fails: child sexualexploitation
Summary
5. Social work assessment of sex offenders
Introduction
Social work assessment
Approaches to social work assessment
Values and attitudes
Risk assessment of sex offenders
Actuarial prediction
Using assessment tools
Structured assessment tools
Physiological assessments
Assessing risk to whom?
Conclusion
Summary
6. Social work interventions
Introduction
The use of the self in interventions
Interventions: modes of delivery
Psychodynamic theory
Cognitive behavioural approaches
Risk, Need and Responsivity
Relapse Prevention
The Self-Regulation Model
The Good Lives Model
Mindfulness
Strengths-based approaches
Multisystemic Therapy
Engaging with families and communities
Which intervention?
Summary
7. Developing reflexive andreflective practice withsex offenders
Introduction
Knowledge is both embodied and social (as well as emotionally and intellectually influenced)
Knowledge is subjectively mediated
A reactivity element (the tools used to discover knowledge influence what is found)
Knowledge is created interactively (influenced by the specific situation)
Values, rights and reflexivity
Conclusion
References
Index
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