Female sex offenders : what therapists, law enforcement and child protective services need to know /
Julia Hislop.
- Ravensdale : Issues Press, c2001.
- vii, 247 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Development of a female sex offender -- Ch. 2. What harm can be without a penis? -- Ch. 3. Why don’t people talk about female sex offenders? -- Ch. 4. Rates of offending by female sex offenders -- Ch. 5. Effects of sexual molestation by a female on the child -- Ch. 6. Childhood sexual victimization histories of female sex offenders -- Ch. 7. Nonsexual abuse and trauma histories of female sex offenders -- Ch. 8. Diagnoses and co-morbid problems common to female sex offenders -- Ch. 9. Handling client difficulties with participation in therapy -- Ch. 10. The early tasks of therapy -- Ch. 11. Exploring victimization and patterns of offending.
For everyone responsible for the well-being of children, this book explains one of the hardest to detect threats to their safety.
Female sex offenders have victimized an estimated two to three million people in the United States. As a society we find it nearly impossible to believe that females, usually seen as nurturing, are capable of sexual abuse.
The result is that, each year, hundreds of thousands of youth are not protected, not believed, and not treated for the trauma associated with the abuse. Through her detailed analysis of the currently available literature and her own research, Dr. Hislop describes what is known about female sex offenders: identification of abusers, estimates of the number of abusers and victims, the methods of abuse, the types of trauma seen among their victims, and what is known about the developmental histories of female sex offenders.
She also provides therapists with directions for treatment and prioritized treatment goals, including exploring the victimization and patterns of offending, the relationship between the offender's own victimization and her offending, precursors to offending, and methods to stop offending.
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Female sex offenders--Services for Female sex offenders--Mental health Adult child sexual abuse victims--Services for Child sexual abuse--Prevention