Product Description

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 programs, 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #356110 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
“…concise and accessible…I would recommend this book to the target readership…” (Vista, Vol.9, No.2, 2005)

Review
“…concise and accessible…I would recommend this book to the target readership…” (Vista, Vol.9, No.2, 2005)

From the Back Cover
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.

Customer Reviews

Excellent
This book does exactly what it says in the synopsis. An all round bite-size guide to the assessment and treatment of different types of offenders. I have found this book very informative and easily readable. Recommended to anyone working with offenders.

A must have!
An easy to read, relevant book to anyone working with offenders in any capacity. A compilation written by some of the best known names in the field, it is highly accessable, for students and practitioners alike - a must for anyone studying or working in forensic psychology.