For Professionals

This section of Safer Society’s website is where we will put all the information that is especially relevant to people who provide services to those with sexual behavior problems. This section will be regularly updated and expanded as we receive feedback from professionals about what is most helpful. You can provide feedback through this form.

Recent Professional Books

Current Practices and Emerging Trends in Sexual Abuser Management: The Safer Society 2009 North American Survey

by Robert J. McGrath, Georgia F. Cumming, Brenda L. Burchard, Stephen Zeoli, and Lawrence Ellerby
Safer Society’s 2009 North American survey reports on the responses from more than 1,370 residential and community sexual abuser treatment programs for male and females adults, adolescents, and children. This report provides a wide-angle snapshot of the state of the field, and identifies trends in the assessment and treatment of sexual abusers. Both the current practices and trends are compared with what research and professional associations presently consider “best practice” in the field. Areas requiring additional research are identified and suggestions for program development and evaluation are included. As well as broadening the geographic scope to include Canada, this edition also probes public policy issues and includes the treatment theories Risk, Need, and Responsivity; Self-Regulation, and Good Lives. This report provides invaluable information for practitioners, researchers, and policy makers.

Current Practices and Emerging Trends is available for free download as a PDF file by clicking here. If you would prefer to have a printed, bound copy, they are available through Safer Society Press for $25.00. To order online, click here.

Building Motivation for Change in Sexual Offenders

Edited by David S. Prescott, L.I.C.S.W.
No credible evidence exists to prove that punishing people reduces their willingness to cause harm again. In fact, research indicates that a harsh, confrontational approach does not work over the long term. So how do you motivate your tough clients? How do you create a client/therapist environment that promotes your client’s willingness to change?

David S. Prescott, Clinical Director of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program at Moose Lake, has assembled this leading-edge, professional resource to begin answering these questions. The book includes both theoretical and concrete approaches that focus on problems most professionals have experienced.

Available from Safer Society Press. To order online, click here.