The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment

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Clive R. Hollin
Wiley, 2004 - Psychology - 285 pages
This "Essential Handbook" provides the critical elements from its companion volume, the successful Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment. A comprehensive review of assessment and treatment, it covers the major offender groups: sex offenders, violent offenders, offenders with mental and personality disorders, and property offenders. A range of treatment approaches are also included, incorporating behavioural, cognitive, skills-based, anger management, school programmes, and family-based approaches.

Whilst retaining its international, high quality appeal, The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment is a concise, portable edition for all clinicians, academics and researchers working with offenders across a range of settings.

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Assessing violence risk in mentally and personality
17
Sex offender risk assessment
31
Behavioral approaches to correctional management
47
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Clive R. Hollin is the editor of The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment, published by Wiley.

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