Paper Title
Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse out of the Criminal Law Context – The Hamburg Model
Keywords
- Child Sexual Offenses
- Pedophilic Disorder
- Diagnostic Criteria
- Child Sexual Offense Risk
- Hamburg Model
- Treatment of Pedophilic Men
- Risk Assessment
- Therapy Framework
- Risk-Need-Responsivity Model
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Concomitant Drug Treatment
- Medical Confidentiality
- Risk Situations
- Therapeutic Effects
- Pedophilia Treatment
- Non-Criminal Law Context
- Risk Management
- Clinical Approaches
- Treatment Methods
- Confidentiality in Treatment
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Publication Info
Volume: 68 | Issue: 03/04 | Pages: 142-161
Published On
February, 2018
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Abstract
A large proportion of child sexual offenses are not reported or convicted. At the same time, not all individuals who fulfil the diagnostic criteria for a pedophilic disorder do commit a child sexual offense. The purpose of the article is to present the Hamburg model for the treatment of pedophilic men or those with a risk of child sexual offences outside the criminal law context. Special emphasis is placed on a sound diagnostic and a risk assessment procedure. The selection of a suitable therapy framework, the setting and the method is carried out according to the risk, need, responsivity model. Psychodynamically sound as well as cognitive behavioral therapy methods and the procedure for concomitant drug treatment are described. Finally, the special features in dealing with medical confidentiality and risk situations are discussed. Important for the Hamburg model, as for comparable other approaches in the future, is the study of the therapeutic effects.
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