ACQUAINTANCE RAPE:
ASSESSMENT, TREATMENT, & PREVENTION

Edited By:
THOMAS L. JACKSON

Provides mental health professionals and agency caregivers in community mental health centers, university counseling centers, and rape/crisis intervention programs with a basic framework for understanding and preventing acquaintance rape.  Procedures for identifying, assessing, and treating both victims and perpetrators are presented.  Contributors present practical, applied techniques utilizing treatment regimen outlines, therapeutic and homework assignments, and multimedia presentation formats for individual, couples, and group treatment and education programs.  Includes references to treatment manuals and assessment tools, and other resources and procedures.

REVIEWS

"Dr. Tom Jackson -- one of the most prominent sexual assault researchers and clinicians -- has put together an author team of ten of the nation's recognized experts on research and treatment of acquaintance rape.  Acquaintance Rape: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention is the most comprehensive and clearly written guide to the assessment, treatment, and prevention of date rape that I have seen.  This practical, yet scholarly volume, provides an indispensable source of valuable information on all aspects of assessment and treatment strategies for survivors of rape trauma."
     -Albert R. Roberts, DSW, Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, Rutgers -- The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey

"Tom Jackson has provided an excellent informational resource on the realities of the most frequent, and overlooked form of sexual assault.  A must for practitioners in the preventative and treatment disciplines."
     -Bob Staehle, Lieutenant, University of South Florida Police Department, Tampa, Florida; Rape Investigation Instructor for the Florida Attorney General's Office, Tallahassee, Florida, and National Presenter on Date/Acquaintance Rape Prevention

"Dr. Jackson has assembled an impressive array of authors and has put together an exceptionally useful book on acquaintance rape.  It is the most complete and up-to-date source I know of in this emerging area of psychology and is highly recommended...Jackson's book is an essential addition to the personal libraries of acquaintance rape researchers, counselors, and therapists and other involved individuals such as educational administrators, residence hall personnel, and the like."
      -Randal Quevillon, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of South Dakota

"...for the therapist who would hear the voices of those who are so often not heard, the victims of acquaintance rape.  Accompanied by similarly practical chapters for the prevention educator."
     -Py Bateman, Publisher of the ReAct: Practical Strategies for Ending Violence Newsletter