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Relapse Prevention for Sexual Harassers is the first volume specifically devoted to describing effective interventions. Theoretically and empirically based, this clinical manual conceptualizes sexual harassment as a form of sexual abuse, and presents a treatment program based on the tested principles of relapse prevention. Using a stepped care approach, it describes how misinformation about sexual harassment impacts the harasser, and describes how to work with cognitive distortions, seeming irrelevant decisions, high-risk situations and lifestyle balance and myth acceptance and details specific interventions for these problems.
Geared for the mental health clinician, and a useful resource for the human resources professional, this manual emphasizes skills and techniques as well as providing abundant examples from case transcripts. The interventions it presents can be also be applied to a range of psychological problems.
List of contents
1. Introduction to Sexual Harassment: The Law and Consequences.- Definitions and Measures: What is Sexual Harassment?.- Effects and Consequences.- Legal Effects.- Organizational Costs.- What Can Be Done with Sexual Harassers?.- 2. Relapse Prevention as an Appropriate Model for the Treatment of Sexual Harassers.- Relapse Prevention and Harm Reduction.- Pre-treatment Information.- 3. Bicycles and Sexual Harassment: The Offense Chain, the Offense Cycle, and the Offense Wheel.- 4. Comorbid Disorders.- 5. Treatment Modules.- Module 1: Assessment.- Module 2: Understanding Sexual Harassment.- Module 3: Overcoming Denial and Minimization.- Module 4: Skills Training.- Module 5: Myth Acceptance, Cognitive Distortions, and Negative Attitudes towards Women.- Module 6: Victim Empathy.- Module 7: Relapse Prevention, Seemingly Irrelevant Decisions, Positive Addictions, and Lifestyle Balance.- Module 8: High-Risk Situations.- Module 9: Outcome Expectancies and the Problem of Immediate Gratification.- Module 10: Review and Introduction to RP in Daily Life.- Module 11: Review and Aftercare.- Empirical Support of Intervention.- Conclusion.- References.- Handouts.- 1 The FAQs of Sexual Harassment.- 2 Motivation Ratings.- 3 Self-Report Sexual Harassment Inventory.- 4 Sexual Harassment Knowledge Questionnaire.- 5 Sexual Harassment Myth Acceptance.- 6 Empathy Worksheet.- 7 Outcome Expectancies.- 8 Cognitive Distortions.- 9 Relapse Prevention Offense Chain Worksheet.- 10 Relapse Prevention Plan Worksheet.- About the Authors.
About the author
William O'Donohue is Nicholas Cummings Professor of Behavioral Healthcare Delivery at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). He holds adjunct appointments in the Department of Philosophy at UNR and at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Summary
Relapse Prevention for Sexual Harassers is the first volume specifically devoted to describing effective interventions. Theoretically and empirically based, this clinical manual conceptualizes sexual harassment as a form of sexual abuse, and presents a treatment program based on the tested principles of relapse prevention. Using a stepped care approach, it describes how misinformation about sexual harassment impacts the harasser, and describes how to work with cognitive distortions, seeming irrelevant decisions, high-risk situations and lifestyle balance and myth acceptance and details specific interventions for these problems.
Geared for the mental health clinician, and a useful resource for the human resources professional, this manual emphasizes skills and techniques as well as providing abundant examples from case transcripts. The interventions it presents can be also be applied to a range of psychological problems.
