Treatment of High-Risk Sexual Offenders

• Provides a thorough review of contemporary theory and research relating to complex, challenging populations, and translates it into a comprehensive system of assessment and treatment for high risk sexual offenders
• Offers detailed coverage of setting and staff requirements, the importance of the therapeutic alliance, and how to balance individual therapy with group components in order to develop social and self-management skills
• Builds on the principle of integrative care, drawing on the established Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model for offender assessment and rehabilitation but adding new components of CBT and motivational interviewing
• Includes a complete assessment battery and strategies for managing serious mental illness and comorbidity

Dr Jeffrey Abracen is Chief Psychologist with Central District Parole, Correctional Service of Canada. He was previously clinical director of the community based Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program, and until late 2011 was co-director of the Relapse Prevention Maintenance Program offered to sexual offenders in the Central District of Correctional Service of Canada. He has provided training related to the community treatment and supervision of sexual offenders to a variety of audiences and has more than thirty publications in peer-reviewed journals, as well as many conference presentations.