Carla van Dam, Ph.D.

Revealing the secret but successful strategies used by child molesters allows adults to intervene long before children are abused. The Socially Skilled Child Molester: Differentiating the Guilty from the Falsely Accused identifies how socially proficient molesters successfully ingratiate themselves into families and communities. The book closely examines their techniques and strategies while detailing the tools for prevention. The difficult issue of false accusation is tackled by learning the distinctions that clearly differentiate the actions of the guilty from those who are innocent. Practical recommendations for accurately assessing danger and managing safety are provided.

The Socially Skilled Child Molester focuses on the sexual deviants who ‘groom’ family, friends, and their community to allow their activities, though arousing suspicion, to go on without restriction. This essential source reveals their tactics. Using composite representations of various types of child molesters, the author illustrates through case history and detailed research how these offenders succeed, while providing recommendations on how communities can stop enabling and protecting such individuals.

The Socially Skilled Child Molester discusses in depth:

• ’groomers’ versus ’grabbers’
• common misperceptions about child molesters
• the groomer profile—the different types
• groomer strategies for manipulation
• correctly differentiating between pedophiles and the falsely accused
• predicting risk
• the key concerns when interviewing child molesters
• the three levels of child molesters
• recidivism for the sexual deviant.

The Socially Skilled Child Molester comprehensively brings together helpful strategies and vital information essential for parents, lawmakers, police, teachers, and therapists.

In praise of The Socially Skilled Child Molester:

“This is the most complete book I have read relating to child molesters.”
– Steve Thompson, MS, Associate Professor and Sexual Aggression Services Coordinator, Central Michigan University

“Provides a thorough description of common types of child molesters, most importantly distinguishing between ‘grabbers’ and ‘groomers’.”
– Kelly Simonson, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, Texas Woman’s University Counseling Center

You can purchase a copy of this book here.

Identifying Child Molesters: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse by Recognizing the Patterns of the Offenders will teach you to better protect children from potential child sexual molesters long before any abuse can actually occur. Here you’ll learn to recognize and understand the seemingly invisible steps that typically precede child sexual abuse. These stories of molesters, their families, and their victims, will enable you to more accurately see through a potential molester’s charming demeanor and better protect the children in your life.

Understanding the behavior that molesters often exhibit when trying to obtain access to children is essential to protecting children from their advances. By becoming familiar with this terrain you will find the courage and strength to decide what must be done, and the skills to follow through with the necessary actions. Such responses will appropriately curtail an offender’s access to children and subsequent opportunities to molest.

Identifying Child Molesters will teach you:

• how to recognize those who might molest
• how molesters typically ‘charm’adults
• how societal attitudes help to foster child sexual abuse
• what to do when encountering a potential molester
• what physical and emotional damage molestation can cause to victims
• how to graciously avoid potentially dangerous situations

Identifying Child Molesters: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse by Recognizing the Patterns of the Offenders clearly spells out the techniques that child sexual molesters so successfully use to charm adults into giving them access to children. When these strategies are seen and understood, adults can take much more direct responsibility for preventing child sexual abuse than was previously possible.

Anyone who lives or works with children needs to own this book. The information you’ll encounter in Identifying Child Molesters might startle you, but it might also help you save the life of a child!

In praise of Identifying Child Molesters:

“By presenting stories of molesters, their families, and their victims, van Dam (a clinical and forensic psychologist) outlines the steps that typically proceed child sexual abuse. She explains the techniques child sexual molesters use to charm adults and gain access to children. Chapters discuss various aspects of the problem, including the need for clarity, the harm resulting, and its prevalence. They then discuss the ways in which it is done, the social climate that allows it, visible grooming, and prevention.”
– Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

You can purchase a copy of this book here.