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Despite nearly a century of knowledge indicating a significant number of women engaging in sexual activities with children, the phenomenon has not yet been fully acknowledged. Recently, however, there has been a marked increase in research in this area. However, due to the relatively small numbers of detections or convictions there remains a lack of data regarding: (1) the specific clinical characteristics of female sex offenders; and (2) how these clinical factors link to re-offending and treatment need. The following study examines potential risk, protective, and treatment factors that are highlighted through the process of clinical intervention, using an adapted version of the Beech and Ward ( 2004 ) risk framework. We describe how female sex offenders typically display clinical deficits in the same risk domains as their male counterparts, while noting the ways in which these deficits manifest in this population. In addition, we compare these vulnerability factors in four established types of female sex offender.

Providing step-by-step guidelines to relapse prevention with adult male child sex abusers, this guide is based on the author′s experience of piloting a unique cognitive-behavioural treatment approach in community-based, secure hospital and prison sex offender programmes. Hilary Eldridge presents the theoretical base for relapse prevention, and includes information on: the relapse process and its implications for assessment of perpetrator patterns; intervention in those patterns and maintenance of change; rationale for the exercises used in each phase; how to introduce the exercises; how to deal with client questions and resistance; and different ways of explaining the materials. The author also provides sample therapist//client dialogue.

· A Dutch language edition of Maintaining Change is available. For details, please contact: Dr Ruud Bullens,Ambulant Bureau Jeugdwelzijnszorg,Centraal Bureau Leiden,Postbus 216,2300 AE Leiden,Holland.

Providing step-by-step guidelines to relapse prevention with adult male child sex abusers, this guide is based on the author's experience of piloting a unique cognitive-behavioural treatment approach in community-based, secure hospital and prison sex offender programmes. Hilary Eldridge presents the theoretical base for relapse prevention, and includes information on: the relapse process and its implications for assessment of perpetrator patterns; intervention in those patterns and maintenance of change; rationale for the exercises used in each phase; how to introduce the exercises; how to deal with client questions and resistance; and different ways of explaining the materials. The author also provides sample therapist/client dialogue. The book is designed to be used in conjunction with the three-phased programme of its companion manual, Maintaining Change. One copy of the manual is provided free of charge as a package to purchasers of the Therapist Guide for Maintaining Change. This treatment package is ideal for all who work in a professional capacity with adult male sex offenders, and provides a clear map for personal change. Maintaining Change A Personal Relapse Prevention Manual This user-friendly, step-by-step personal relapse prevention manual - designed to be used in conjunction with the Therapist Guide for Maintaining Change - focuses on the notion of control and taking responsibility for one's actions rather than on `cure'. The programme requires participants to be active in the change process, with the ultimate goal of being able to self-manage. · Purchasers of Maintaining Change may photocopy individual exercises and handouts for use with their own clients or patients. · Customers purchasing this two-volume set may purchase additional copies of Maintaining Change: A Personal Relapse Prevention Manual. Please write to Joyce Lynch at SAGE Publications Ltd for further details. Contents Introduction to the Manual \\ PHASE 1 MATERIAL \\ PHASE 2 MATERIAL \\ Your Cycle and Your Routes to Relapse \\ Preventing and Dealing with Risky Moods \\ Your Personal Relapse Prevention Collection: Keeping Out/Breaking Out of Your Cycle \\ PHASE 3 MATERIAL

This user-friendly, step-by-step personal relapse prevention manual - designed to be used in conjunction with the Therapist Guide for Maintaining Change, also by Hilary Eldridge - focuses on the notion of control and taking responsibility for one's actions rather than on `cure'. The programme requires participants to be active in the change process, with the ultimate goal of being able to self-manage. · Purchasers of Maintaining Changee: A Personal Relapse Prevention Manual may photocopy individual exercises and handouts for use with their own clients or patients. · Customers purchasing the two-volume set (Therapist Guide for Maintaining Change and Maintaining Change: A Personal Relapse Prevention Manual) may purchase additional copies of Maintaining Change: A Personal Relapse Prevention Manual. Please write to Joyce Lynch at SAGE Publications Ltd for further details.

This chapter contains sections titled: Therapeutic Process Issues Identified by Female Sexual Offenders and Practitioners Acknowledging Gender in Therapy for Female Offenders Important Factors in Therapeutic Process with Female Sexual Offenders Conclusions References

This chapter reviews the developments that have occurred in the understanding of female sexual offending and the significance of a gender‐responsive approach to the population. It then explores how gender‐responsiveness can inform understanding of good practice in the assessment and treatment of female sex offenders. It proposes that awareness of the five core elements of gender‐responsive approach to female offenders will facilitate good practice with female sex offenders by informing decision making in relation to the following areas: the women and their lives, intervention and reintegration. The chapter also reviews the key areas where the significance of gender is now acknowledged. These include reconviction rates, deviant sexual arousal patterns, offense supportive cognitions, and typologies and theories of sexual offending.