Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests

Geraldine Akerman is a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist and Therapy Manager at HMP Grendon. She is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK and Honorary Professor of Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK and Chair Elect of the Division of Forensic Psychology. Derek Perkins is a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist at Royal Holloway University of London, UK and Broadmoor Hospital, and Co-Director of ‘onlinePROTECT.’Ross M. Bartels is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and member of the Forensic and Clinical Research Group at the University of Lincoln, UK.

‘For readers seeking new perspectives from established authors, this volume is the best to come along for several years. My copy will reside in the closest shelf to my desk.’ - David Prescott in Sexual Abuse, the official journal of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers

• Series ForewordForewordPart 1: ASSESSMENTChapter 1. How do Sexual Interests Cluster and Relate to Sexual Offending Behaviours against Children? Chapter 2. Exploring and Assessing the Current Sexual Interest of Men who have Committed Sexual and Non-Sexual Violent Offences Chapter 3. The Role of PPG in Sexological Assessment and Treatment of sexual offenders: A Comparison of British and Czech practiceChapter 4. Using the Explicit and Implicit Sexual Interest Profile (EISIP) in Applied Forensic or Clinical Contexts Chaper 5. Using the Rapid Serial Visual Presentation to Detect Sexual InterestChapter 6. Using Eye-Related Measures to Assess Sexual InterestChapter 7. Sexual Fantasy Use as a Proxy for Assessing Deviant Sexual InterestPart 2: MANAGEMENTChapter 8. The treatment of sexual deviance within a therapeutic settingChapter 9. Compassion and Acceptance as Interventions for Paraphilic Disorders and Sexual Offending BehaviourChapter 10. A psychoanalytic approach to paraphilic disorders, perversions and other problematic sexual behavioursChapter 11. Medication to Manage Problematic Sexual ArousalPart 3: APPROACHES TO ASSESSMENT & MANAGEMENTChapter 12. Introducing the Multi Component Framework of Female Sexual Offending Chapter 13. Trauma, Adverse Experiences, and Offence Paralleling Behaviour in the Assessment and Management of Sexual Interest