This volume presents current treatment approaches for of fenders with mental disorders in a variety of settings. After reviewing administrative and legal issues in the provision of care, the volume addresses therapeutic work with inpatients, outpatients, and incarcerated persons. Separate chapters cover special issues in treatment of sexual offenders, offenders with mental retardation, and juvenile offenders. Throughout, the approaches featured are interdisciplinary and eclectic, incorporating biological and psychological perspectives
Includes bibliographical references and index
Administration of treatment programs for offenders with mental disorders / Joel A. Dvoskin and Raymond F. Patterson -- Legal aspects of the treatment of offenders with mental disorders / Thomas L. Hafemeister -- Inpatient treatment of offenders with mental disorders / Gary J. Maier and Louis Fulton -- Community-based forensic treatment / Kirk Heilbrun and Patricia A. Griffin -- Treatment in jails and prisons / Jeffrey L. Metzner [and others] -- Treatment of the sexual offender / Howard E. Barbaree and William L. Marshall -- Treatment of offenders with mental retardation / William I. Gardner, Janice L. Graeber, and Susan J. Machkovitz -- Treatment of the juvenile offender / Donald F. Gordon, Jack Arbuthnot, and Gregory Jurkovic