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 by Gerry D. Blasingame, MA, LMFT

This comprehensive revision, now in one volume, provides a wealth of information and resources for clinicians working with developmentally disabled persons. A partial listing of the topics covered includes:

- Updated strategies for treatment
- Recidivism rates in the general population
- Forensic issues involved
- Developmental disorders and their impact on sexual development
- Constructing an interagency team for community management and supervision
- Integration of treatment and supervision in both residential and community-based settings
- Challenging staffing issues
- Necessary program forms
- Blasingame's Clinical Assessment Tools

This title will be a valuable addition to the professional library of anyone serving this challenging population.  US 2005.

 by Krishan Hansen, M.S.W. and Timothy J. Kahn, M.S.W.

Developmentally disabled individuals experience sexual and physical abuse at rates 50 to 60 percent higher than that of other groups. They are also much more prone to demonstrate "sexual behavior problems" due to cognitive delays, misinformation by caregivers and professionals, experiences of abuse, counterfeit deviance, lack of exposure to appropriate partners, and general de-sexualization by society. Until now, treatment providers had few legitimate tools for working with this population.

Footprints: Steps to a Healthy Life is for developmentally disabled adults and adolescents with sexual behavior problems, clients with learning disabilities, attention deficits, and less than average cognitive abilities. Thousands of individuals have benefited from the relapse prevention model used in Timothy Kahn’s Pathways, and Roadmaps to Recovery workbooks. Now this material and additional material has been adapted to serve adults with developmental disabilities. This workbook will also inform clinicians, and give them concrete exercises and activities they can use with clients to make treatment more effective. US 2005.

edited by Gerry D. Blasingame, MA
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The professional community will benefit from this resource that brings together various issues, needs, and theories to enrich intervention and forensic work with persons with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. The book delivers solutions to the unique challenges and adjustments needed to effectively engage and intervene with ID/DD clients who have severe behavioral problems, including management of sexual behavior, aggression, and anger, as well as victim treatment and treating mental illness.

Chapters include: Communication Challenges; Therapeutic and Communications Skills; Overcoming Barriers in the Therapeutic Process; Modification to Assessment, Treatment, and Case Management; Creative Cognitive Interventions; Paradigm Reconstruction; Experimental Learning and Integrative Exercises; Behavioral Intervention; Staff Training Issues and Challenges; Inpatient Programming.

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by Timothy J. Kahn (author of Pathways)
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NEW EDITION. A treatment workbook for children (ages 8 and up) with touching problems. Aims to help them learn behavioural management, identification of feelings, healthy boundaries and relapse prevention through simplified language, concrete images, and comic-book style drawings. Encouraged by "Buzzbee" the friendly jeepster, children explore their past and current behaviours and feelings. When they have completed homework assignments, readers place stickers (provided by counsellor) to track their progress. At the completion of the workbook, they receive a certificate of membership in the Sexual Abuse Prevention and Safety Team. Also useful for adolescents and adults who have difficulty reading.

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This fully integrated program is designed for children (aged 5-12years), and developmentally delayed adolescents, who exhibit sexually abusive behaviour toward other children - particularly for abuse-reactive children who have been sexually victimized themselves. Steps to Healthy Touching combines a specialized version of the Twelve Steps, activities, and homework assignments that must be signed by parents or guardians. A certificate of progress recognizes the completion of each step.    
Steps to Healthy Touching is an excellent companion to When Children Abuse.    USA, 2003

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Steps to Healthy Touching Counsellor's/Teacher's Guide
by Kee MacFarlane, MSW & Carolyn Cunningham, Ph.D.
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This counsellor's/teacher's guide is designed for professionals using the Steps to Healthy Touching workbook as part of a treatment program for children who exhibit sexually abusive behaviour toward other children. The guide explains the goals of the workbook and how to use it in treatment sessions. It also includes a sample letter to parents and discussion topics for groups of parents of children in treatment.    USA, 2003

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Treating Intellectually Disabled Sex Offenders : A Model Residential Program
by James Haaven, Roger Little, & Dan Petre-Miller
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Describes how the intensive residential specialized Social Skills Program at Oregon State Hospital combines principles of respect, self-help and experiential learning with traditional sex-offender treatment methods. Includes many of the program's innovative, adaptable materials.    USA 1990.

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