| Traditional Therapist |
Sex-Specific Therapist |
| Offers dynamically oriented therapies (talking therapies) that don’t directly reduce sexual interest in children. |
Offers sex-specific treatments that use cognitive-behavioral techniques to drastically reduce or eliminate a patient’s sex drive toward children. |
| Knows little about the development of a sex drive toward children and frequently reacts emotionally to a patient with this disorder. |
Trained to deliver sex-specific therapies to patients with sex drives toward children and to maintain objectivity. |
| Not trained to proceed with those molesting patients who habitually lie, deny, conceal, and state that they don’t want or need therapy. |
Trained to proceed with the treatment of molesting patients irrespective of their denial. |
| Has one focus, the patient’s welfare. |
Has a double focus: The children who must be protected and the patient’s extinction of sexual interest in children. |
| Trained to assess whether a patient is a danger to himself (suicide risk) or to others (murder risk). |
Trained to assess murder risk, suicide risk, and the risk that the patient will molest a child. |
| Usually delivers outpatient therapy that begins and ends in the therapist’s office. |
Organizes a plan to monitor the patient’s activities outside the treatment setting. |
| Tests: Rarely uses objective measures to monitor treatment success. |
Tests: Uses objective measures to prove treatment success. |
| Medicines: Not trained in use of SSRIs and Provera to alter sex drive. |
Medicines: Trained in use of SSRIs and Provera to alter sex drive. |
| Success: Partial degrees of recovery are acceptable. |
Success: Sex-specific therapy must stop sexual desire for children and protect potential victims. |
| Patient determines when the therapy ends. |
Therapist determines when therapy ends. |
