Proposed Standards of Care for the Treatment of Adult Sex Offenders

Abstract

This paper proposes standards of care for the treatment of adult sex offenders, primarily in (but not limited to) outpatient settings. A first draft was presented at the International Conference on the Treatment of Sex Offenders at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine in May 1989. A second draft was compiled at the Conference of the Association for the Behavioral Treatment of Sexual Abusers, with input from some sixty professionals. A third draft was circulated to a variety of professionals in the United States, Canada, and Europe in Fall 1989. The current draft is published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitatino prior to formal presentation at the Second International Conference on the Treatment of Sex Offenders to be held at the University of Minnesota in September 1991. Readers are urged to communicate their reactions and comments to the authors.