Educational objectives: The participant will learn to diagnose, assess and establish a treatment plan for sexual abusers. The course rests on the relapse prevention model and the cognitive and behavioural treatment approach. The participant will be familiarized with the treatment of cognitive distortions, of empathy feelings and the (pharmacological) treatment of the sexual drive. Course description: - Key-concepts: sexual abuse as a social deviance and/or a psychiatric disorder (paraphilia or disorder of sexual preference). Ethics and features of the judicial coerced treatment. - The cognitive behavioral treatment program as a therapeutic process. - The relapse prevention model of sexual abuse. - The treatment of cognitive distortions. - The pharmacological control of sexual drive.

Course methods and material: Power-point presentation with hand-outs and discussion of clinical cases (vignettes).