Cognitive Treatment "Just for Rapists": Recent Developments

Aggressive Offenders' Cognition: Theory, Research, and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 135-153

  Eccleston, Lynne ^a   Owen, Karen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Department of Justice   (Australia)

Author keywords

Addressing rapists' treatment needs; Cognitive treatment "just for rapists" recent developments; Cognitive driven process issues; Corrections Victoria rapists' sex offender programme; Rapists and child sexual abusers; Rapists' antisocial attitudes, beliefs and behaviours; Sexual offender programmes using cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) interventions; Socioaffective functioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889488463     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470746295.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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