Rehabilitation for Child Molesters
Once child molesters is convicted of a sexual crime, they are no longer trusted within the community they have to reside in and have to live the rest of their lives as outcasts who have developed a serious problem being around children. In order to have safe, unsupervised contact with children, these individuals must undertake various sexual therapies sessions to maybe one day become healthy again.
Before anything can be said about the treatment for a child molester, a proper definition must be defined as a person who has involvement with a child in sexual activity that he or she does not fully comprehend, is unable to give informed consent to, or that violate the laws or social taboos of society. Some reasons individuals commit these sexual acts towards minors is due to the facts that they are experiencing sexual inadequacy. Some of these deficiencies arise from primary impotence of “males who have never experienced satisfactory coitus, with orgasms” or primary premature ejaculation where “fast ejaculatory responses are frequent.” There are numerous reasons why these disturb individuals perform such acts of violence, but we have to remember that what these people have is a disease that needs to be treated with medication and time.
“Once the etiology of a sexual disorder has been established, treatment can begin.” Most sexual problems can be treated through conventional methods like sexual education a man or a woman is taken into a room with a physician and proceeds with a “general, non-threatening examination of the eyes, ears, mouth, heart, and lungs.” The patient is then asked to lie down so that the physician can further the examination by tenderizing the patients genital areas. After the examination, the patients are then asked about “their thoughts and feelings about the examination.” When this approach to rehabilitation does not work, another method used is called psychotherapy. This procedure uses a very simple and universal treatment in the forms of self-pleasure. “With genital pleasuring, the goal is that the patient should learn to produce and respond to his/her own sexual arousal.”
A new form of sexual therapy that has been recently used is the ability of picturing images to arouse ones self. This new procedure states that sexual dysfunctional “people who are able to form conditioned responses easily become sexually aroused by a larger of situations than others find it difficult to establish a line between neutral stimulus and sexual response.
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It is very common for these individuals to be monitored for drug use during this treatment/therapy regimen so as not to undermine the program or the criminal justice system. Psychotherapy is often best for a population such as sex offenders. Since no medication has yet been proven to be effective against a sex offender’s urges, cognitive behavioral therapy (as well as intense supervision) is the most effective modality of
When a late adolescent or adult is primarily or exclusively attracted to a minor child sexually they become diagnosed with the psychiatric disorder pedophilia. Mostly a person is not diagnosed with this disorder unless they have had this attraction for six months or longer. This attraction can be in the form of fantasies which are sexually arousing to the perpetrator, or the urge to engage in sexual activities with a minor child. In addition, in order to be diagnosed the molester will have to have acted on these urges or suffered from some type of distress, which will be result from having these feelings. Also the molester should be at least sixteen years old with the victim being younger than them by a minimum of five years.
Letourneau, E. J., Henggeler, S. W., Borduin, C. M., Schewe, P. A., McCart, M. R., Chapman, J. E., & Saldana, L. (2009). Multisystemic therapy for juvenile sexual offenders: 1-year results from a randomized effectiveness trial. Journal of Family Psychology, 23(1), 89-102.
These cognitive-behavioral techniques; anger management, deviant sexual arousal, and interventions dependent on the principles of risk, responsibilities and needs provide the most common forms of treatment used with sex offenders. Typically, these techniques ensure effective treatment of cognitive distortions, teaching of social skills and empathy and the implementation of emotion management and relapse prevention. Cognitive-behavioral techniques are proven and effective treatment for a number of mental illnesses and problems because they are comprehensive and effectual treatments and can be considered the best practice for treatment with sexual offenders as inferred by Alaska Dept of Corrections and United States of America
It is also noteworthy that this is not limited to child sex offenders. Many adults that are arrested as sex offenders were involved with people they knew or had seduced; instead of the stereotypical brute that forces his or herself on their victim. No matter the methods employed in committing the crimes that they do, there is still the question, what drives a sex
Have you ever asked the question, how we know if a pedophile or sex offender can ever be cured or rehabilitated. Would I be comfortable with them living in my neighborhood? If you have you are just like the rest of the world. Pedophilia is a true illness, and not just in my opinion it also in the DSMIV 302.2. We may never truly be comfortable with the thought that researchers say Pedophiles can not be cured, but they can be rehabilitated in time with and they have test to prove it,
The lack of opportunities to secure housing and employment and loss of family and friend support are all consequences of community notification. More than one third of registrants surveyed in a study reported they had lost a job, been denied a place to live and been harassed and treated rudely in public as a result of public knowledge of sex offender registers. Offenders are more likely to be driven underground when they are unable to secure employment or a place to live due to their status on the sex offender register. Employers are less likely to employ a sex offender due to fear of losing business from an informed public. These issues on top of the stress of being released from prison and trying
There type of treatment are very helpful and its main concern is to change taboo sexual habits, corrects the offender’s behavior, and believe that sexual offense is acceptable, increase sorrow towards the victims. Only a specialist who is certified are able to practice these kind of programs to bring positive changes to the offenders. The treatment can be done in the community and in the prison depending on the circumstances.
Through case study, the psychodynamic approach was developed by Sigmund Freud. Freud visited Charcot’s, a laboratory in Paris investigating people suffering from hysteria. There, Freud began patient case studies (Crain, p. 254). Freud developed 5 stages of human development known as the Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency and Genital stages. The Oral stage is from the ages of birth to 18 months. This stage engages in oral activities such as sucking. Next the Anal stage begins around age 18 months to 3 years of age. Freud suggests that during the Anal stage a child focuses on the pleasure of purging from the rectal area. The Phallic stages, none as the masturbation stage, when a child get’s pleasure from focusing on his genital areas usually happens during ages 3 years to 6 years of age. After the Phallic stage come the Latency stages. Latency is when children at the ages of 6 to 12 years old work to develop cognitive and interpersonal skills suppressing sexual interests but those 12 years and older fall into the Genital stages. During the Genital stage those suppressed sexual interests re-occur and the need to find gratification dependent on finding a partner (Craig & Dunn, p 12)
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a promising outlook for the rehabilitation of sex offenders. The therapy is directed towards reconditioning the way a sex offender thinks and operates daily. This makes it possible for offender to apply learned treatment methods and tools to their every day life and more effectively recognize maladaptive thought patterns, which could lead to reoffending. The downside to the therapy is that it relies heavily on the offender to want to change; however, pre-screening into the program helps to ensure only those who want change may participate. In the future there may be more of a shift to the Good Lives Model, which focuses even more on self-worth and self-actualization to make the offender feel important and return to the community as a productive citizen.
problem for the public, as potential victims, and the legal system which is entrusted by the public for protection. It would be irresponsible for the legal system to ignore the criminal class of sex offenders, for they are subject to a recurring physiological urge that requires the use of effective restraints that would curb the habitual repetition of episodes producing the harmful consequences to the public(Schopf 95). In light of this realization, steps beyond treatment have been taken to reduce the recidivism rate of sex offenders. Notification laws, special supervising techniques by parole officers, and both surgical and chemical castration are techniques used in various forms in this country and abroad with success. However, notification laws and both forms of castrations
For my Out of the Box Activity, I watched a documentary that followed the story of 3 women who were tormented 24/7 with the need to have orgasm. The documentary explained how Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS) causes this unusual condition characterized by throbbing, spontaneous and irrepressible genital arousal in females. PSAS is a little known neurological disorder and the victim's arousal is not linked to sexual desire. Most important to note is that PSAS is actually not related to hyper-sexuality, aka nymphomania. Not only is PSAS very rare, the disorder is seldom reported by the affected individual, who may think it is shameful and embarrassing or that they are the only people on the planet that have the disorder. Rachel, a woman from Atlanta, GA explains that she has to use rigorous control over her body to prevent a climax. “They come every 30 seconds for four to six [or] sometimes eight hours, and I'm sure that's well up in the hundreds - I'm not a math person, but I'm sure it's up there.” I cannot imagine having constant arousal with blood engorging in my genitals fo...
The medicalization of sex addiction demonstrates the lengths at which medical authority will go to inject another fabricated disease into the blood of society. While alleged sex addictions have existed for many years, they have only recently been accepted as valid excuses for sexual deviancy. Attitudes toward sex addiction in the past offer a stark contrast to how it is viewed today, as the constantly medicalizing society insists on putting everything under the technical microscope. Sex addiction is commonly associated with a person’s inability to control his sexual behavior, implying an abnormally high sex drive and obsession with sex which have negative effects on his personal life (MedicineNet 2007, 1). Rather than breaking down the science behind the disorder, a customary practice in today’s medicalized society, older attitudes towards sex addiction placed it under the same light as alcoholism, where a lack of control and unwillin... ...
Much like many medications, there is no absolute guarantee that chemical castration will be effective when used on everyone. However, there are multiple studies that prove its success rate and other advantages. Although an absolute direct correlation between sexual offences and hormonal imbalance has not been completely proven, various theories prove that sexual offending has incorporated hormonal factors and that chemical castration reduces sexual interest and repeat sex offences (Joo Yong Lee, 2013). In 2014, a study was conducted by the International Society of Sexual Medicine to evaluate the effectiveness of chemical castration on sex offenders. 56 offenders, arrested for sexual offences, were used as subjects. Group A had 38 offenders and were injected every three months with leuprolide acetate (a synthetic gonadotropin releasing hormone) and group B had 18 and was injected with leuprolide acetate every six months. It was found in group A that sexual thoughts decreased significantly by 76% and 71% and masturbation decreased by 74%. In group B sexual thoughts decreased by 78% and 72% and masturbation declined by 83% (Koo KC, 2014). This evidence therefore supported that chemical castration was a very viable option in order to decrease their libido and sexual fantasy. Chemical castration also plays a key