Treatment of Offenders and Families by Byrgen P. Finkelman

Author:Byrgen P. Finkelman [Finkelman, Byrgen P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780815318187
Goodreads: 13794781
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Barbara A. Weiner, J.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in Law, Rush Medical College. Correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed to: Barbara A. Weiner, J.D. Administrator and Counsel, Section on Psychiatry and the Law, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison St., Suite 344, Chicago, IL 60612.

Behavioral Sciences & the Law, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 325–340 (1985)

© 1985 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

CCC 0735–3936/85/040325–16$04.00

Theory and Treatment in Child Molestation

Richard I. Lanyon

Arizona State University

This paper reviews the state of current knowledge on child molestation, as distinguished from child rape. The traditional view that deviant sexual behavior is based in a character disorder is contrasted with the functional view, which makes no assumptions about etiology. Descriptive characteristics of child molesters are presented; in particular, preference molesters or pedophiles, who prefer children, are distinguished from situational molesters, whose basic preference is for adult partners, but who choose children as a function of circumstances. Structured assessment devices are needed for making this distinction and also for assessing molesters’ potential for violence. From a clinical perspective, the family-systems approach is widely considered to be the treatment of choice for incestuous families. For eliminating the deviant behavior and impulses of offenders themselves, the empirical treatment literature shows that behavioral methods using covert sensitization have considerable promise, at least for situational molesters.

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