ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on selected lectures and workshops provided for the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA), Midlands branch, from 2007 through 2015. It captures current NOTA-based continuing professional development efforts. The book concerns David Glasgow's examination of cognitive sexual interest and the role of aversion as links to sexual offending that have been inadequately addressed thus far in assessment, formulation and intervention work with abusers. It addresses the acquisition of more effective treatment skills and approaches to intervention. The book examines offender types, with Steve Davies, Mary Sharpe and Dan Wilcox focusing their chapter on understanding 'flow' and its impact on the assessment, treatment and supervision of men who commit internet-related sexual offences. It also addresses organisational and environmental factors that affect offending, with Donald Findlater detailing a theoretical framework for community safeguarding.
