Treatment of Sex Offenders: A Christian Approach to Psychotherapy - Paperback

by Theophilus a. Natter (Author)

Once a sex offender, always a sex offender? Not necessarily. Sex offenders can be treated successfully. What is needed is a cognitive approach to bring about a permanent change of attitude and character. This is a long process, which can only be accomplished with the full cooperation of the patient in all phases of the program.

Author Biography

Dr. Theophilus A. Natter was born and reared in Calabar, Nigeria, in West Africa. His basic education began in neighboring Ghana. He attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, before transferring to the Christian College of America in Houston, Texas, where he earned his BS degree in Psychology/Counseling. From the Houston Graduate School of Theology (also in Houston, Texas) he earned an MA. And from the International University for Graduate Studies in St. Kitts in the West Indies he earned a PhD in clinical Christian counseling and psychotherapy. He has been in private practice for more than eighteen years. He is also an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.