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Outcome of Comprehensive Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Programs
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A great variety of treatment programs for sex offenders are now available (Brecher, 1978; Hults, 1981; Knopp, 1984). Evaluations of the outcome from nonbehavioral psychotherapy programs (Barbaree & Marshall, in press-a) reveal that methodological problems present difficulties in determining effectiveness. While those programs appear to consistently result in recidivism rates around or below 10% (Furby, Weinrott, and Blackshaw, 1989), this apparent effectiveness is seriously confounded by selection procedures which exclude the most dangerous offenders from treatment (Barbaree & Marshall, in press-a) and by the failure to provide an adequate comparison group of untreated offenders (Furby et al., 1989; Tracy, Donnelly, Morgenbesser, & Macdonald, 1983). The effectiveness of physical treatment procedures has been evaluated by Bradford (1985; and Chapter 17, this volume), who comes to optimistic conclusions contrary to the views expressed by us in our reviews of this literature (Barbaree & Marshall, in press-a; Quinsey & Marshall, 1983).
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Recidivism Rate Child Molester Deviant Stimulus Sexual Abuser Offensive BehaviorPreview
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