ABSTRACT
Sexual violence risk assessment and management are clinical tasks that are required in legal, quasi-legal, and clinical situations in most jurisdictions, and are significantly important exercises during decision-making points including release from psychiatric, penal, and forensic facilities, as well as behaviour management during institutionalization. This chapter will examine the current approaches towards the treatment for sexual violence for females. It will offer a brief review as to the main approaches of such treatment. It will offer a summary as to the format of such treatment, with an outline as to the order in which such treatment generally takes place. It will focus on the application of current theories of female sex offending as part of this approach, and how individual pathways of treatment may be defined based on gender. It will also examine other treatment approaches outside theories of sex offending that are currently utilized to maximize treatment success. This will include theories of motivation and engagement, the use of motivational approaches, trauma, personality development, transactional roles, theories of resistance and denial and the management of these. It will also examine the application of current models of offender rehabilitation and desistance in terms of how these may apply to females who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviour.
