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.

Series Foreword

Foreword

Part 1: ASSESSMENT

Chapter 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 practice

Chapter 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 Interest

Chapter 6. Using Eye-Related Measures to Assess Sexual Interest

Chapter 7. Sexual Fantasy Use as a Proxy for Assessing Deviant Sexual Interest

Part 2: MANAGEMENT

Chapter 8. The treatment of sexual deviance within a therapeutic setting

Chapter 9. Compassion and Acceptance as Interventions for Paraphilic Disorders and Sexual Offending Behaviour

Chapter 10. A psychoanalytic approach to paraphilic disorders, perversions and other problematic sexual behaviours

Chapter 11. Medication to Manage Problematic Sexual Arousal

Part 3: APPROACHES TO ASSESSMENT & MANAGEMENT

Chapter 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