Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) appears to benefit men with pedophilic disorder, according to a recent Journal of Sexual Medicine study.
ADT aims to reduce the amount of androgens, including testosterone, in the body. Past research has shown that this approach, combined with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) had been helpful in the treatment of sex offenders with paraphilic disorders.
ADT is generally accomplished in one of two ways:
- Anti-androgen therapy involves the use of medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) and cyproterone acetate (CPA), administered as a daily pill.
- LHRH (luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone) agonists, administered as intramuscular or subcutaneous injections every 12 weeks.
The Prevention Podcast
The goal of this podcast is to educate the global community on sexual violence prevention which includes education, research, and global prevention efforts and initiatives. Visit http://www.theglobalpreventionproject.org to learn about The Global Prevention Project™. To listen click here: http://thepreventionpodcast.com/internet/
The Case That Saved Sex On The Internet
In 1997 the US Supreme Court ruled against censoring sex on the internet. It overturned a law, signed the previous year which had been designed to protect children from sexual content on the internet. Claire Bowes has been speaking to an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who fought the case for freedom of speech.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csvtvl
The Case that Saved Sex On The Internet in case the link above is not working
ADDICTION:
Short video showing the process of addiction. Kiwi tastes a nugget. It is delicious….
A Short Video on Consent: A Cup of Tea (2 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwvrxVavnQ’
Chalk and Cheese: The Difference Between Attraction and Offending
Published in Inside Time 1 August 2019. Written by Juliet Grayson
The Power Threat Meaning Framework
The Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) can be used as a way of helping people to create more hopeful narratives or stories about their lives and the difficulties they have faced or are still facing, instead of seeing themselves as blameworthy, weak, deficient or ‘mentally ill’.
It highlights and clarifies the links between wider social factors such as poverty, discrimination and inequality, along with traumas such as abuse and violence, and the resulting emotional distress or troubled behaviour, whether it is confusion, fear, despair or troubled or troubling behaviour.
It also shows why those of us who do not have an obvious history of trauma or adversity can still struggle to find a sense of self-worth, meaning and identity
The Framework applies not just to people who have been in contact with the mental health or criminal justice systems, but to all of us. It summarises and integrates a great deal of evidence about the role of various kinds of power in people’s lives, the kinds of threat that misuse of power pose to us and the ways we have learnt to respond to those threats.
In traditional mental health practice, threat responses are sometimes called ‘symptoms’. The Framework looks instead at how we make sense of these difficult experiences and how messages from wider society can increase our feelings of shame, self-blame, isolation, fear and guilt.
The approach of the Framework is summarised in four questions that can apply to individuals, families or social groups:
1. What has happened to you? (How is power operating in your life?)
2. How did it affect you? (What kind of threats does this pose?)
3. What sense did you make of it? (What is the meaning of these situations and experiences to you?)
4. What did you have to do to survive? (What kinds of threat response are you using?)
5. ‘What are your strengths?’ (What access to Power resources do you have?)
6. ‘What is your story?’ (How does all this fit together?)
Created by the British Psychological Society
Download Short Version Here (139 pages)
Download Long Version Here
A link to a whole magazine of 27 articles written on behalf of StopSO for The Psychotherapist. https://stopso.org.uk/articles-commissioned/
The law about reporting sexual abuse and sexual offences, as it applies to psychotherapists and counsellors.
Law in the UK About Reporting Child Abuse by Juliet Grayson
How to write a letter saying sorry for raping someone
This is written by a trauma resolution educator. Her web page is worth a read if you feel like you’d like to apologise and don’t know where to begin.
She says, “Apologies can’t and won’t automatically heal trauma, betrayal or physiological patterns of danger response. They don’t undo the deeds of the past. But they can lift the weight of shame, guilt, rage and grief. They can act as valves for opening and releasing energy. And that’s worth a lot.”
http://rachaelmaddox.com/sacred-apologies/
Date: 2 July 2018: Online Article
Online article in Eastern Daily Press. “Norfolk’s chief constable has called for a new approach to the treatment of paedophiles.” Click here to read the full article
Date: 2 July 2018: Online Article
Article in Mental Health Today. “Police want therapists to play bigger role confronting sexual offence risks”
StopSO Chair and psychosexual therapist, Juliet Grayson said: “During 2017, almost 800 people asked StopSO for help. Over a third of these people are reaching out for help before an offence has been committed.”
“Twenty percent are young adults, mostly students, or people on low income who are unable to afford therapy. StopSO needs funding to be able to offer free or subsidised therapy to clients and protect children from harmful sexual behaviour.”
“Reports of child sexual abuse continue to rise year on year and we have to do everything we can to meet the challenge.”
Click here to read the full article
StopSO was featured on the Male Psychology Network, promoting the wellbeing of men and boys
Click here to read the full article
Date: 12 February 2018: Online Article
Article in Mental Health Today. ‘Most mental health professionals have worked with someone who has experienced sexual abuse as a child, but not many have worked with someone who is experiencing sexual desires for children that they wish not to act on. We talk to Juliet Grayson, Director of StopSo, about how to reduce sexual abuse by providing therapy for potential sex offenders’.
Click here to read the full article
Date: 7 February 2018: Online Article
Article in Mental Health Today. ‘Charity StopSO is calling for adequate funding to provide therapy in the community for those who feel at potential risk of committing a sexual offence.’
Click here to read the full article
Date: 11 September 2017: Online article
Online BBC Article By Catherine Burns, BBC Victoria Derbyshire programme. “The young paedophiles who say they don’t abuse children”. Click here to read the full article
**Date: 22 June 2017: Online article
A StopSO therapist, Julie Newberry, wrote: “Viewing Child Abuse Images: Paedophile or Addicted to Porn?” for welldoing.org. Julie explains that some people who become addicted to porn will find themselves looking at child abuse images. She also looks at some of the consequences of this.
Click here to read the whole article
Date: 14th June 2017: Online Article
Article in I,SCIENCE by Bruno Martin titled Treating Child Abuse And Paedophilia. He writes how ‘Paedophile is not a synonym for child molester. While abusing children is a choice, suffering from sexual attraction towards children is not. Many paedophiles are simply born that way, and struggle with their sexual desire throughout their adult lives. Some give in to the desire, and offend, while others never harm children. Drawing this distinction is important for the prevention of child abuse—and recent research has shown that, if you want to understand their behaviour, you need to start with their brains.’
Click here to read the full article
Date: 5th May 2017: Online Newspaper Article
Article in Mail Online by Siofra Brennan about online addiction leading men to view indecent images of children as they seek out more extreme material
Click here to read the full article
Date: 6th March 2017: Online Newspaper Article
i News online Interview by Serina Sandhu. “The therapist who treats paedophiles and the compassion she feels.” Juliet Grayson listens to stories that many seasoned therapists would find challenging. Her role is to provide counselling to people who have been convicted of child abuse but want to be rehabilitated.
Click here to read
Date: 6th March 2017: Article
Article written by Juliet Grayson, “Thoughts on mandatory reporting” UKCP Issue 65, Spring 2017. At the end of last year the government held a consultation called “Reporting and acting on child abuse and neglect” to investigate mandatory reporting and a duty to act for professionals.
Click here to read
Date: 6th March 2017: Online Newspaper Article
Article published on 6 march 2017 in The Sun Online by Brittany Vonow about prevention rather than shaming or prison
Click here to read
A Letter written by a man who uses sex dolls
Interview With A Female Paedophile
Podcast: Interview with non-contact female pedophile named ‘Emma’
http://thepreventionpodcast.com/interview-with-female-anti-contact-pedophile-emma
Transcript here https://aboutpedophilia.com/2018/09/11/prevention-podcast-transcript-emma-female-non-offending-pedophile/
Information for keeping your children safe online
https://www.bestvpnrating.com/guide-children-privacy
A Strange and Terrible Unicorn: The Musings of a Non-Offending Female Pedophile: An Article
Help Wanted: Podcast
There’s one group of people that is universally tarred and feathered in the United States and most of the world. We never hear from them, because they can’t identify themselves without putting their livelihoods and reputations at risk. That group is pedophiles. It turns out lots of them desperately want help, but because it’s so hard to talk about their situation it’s almost impossible for them to find it. Reporter Luke Malone spent a year and a half talking to people in this situation, and he has this story about one of them. (27 minutes)
You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now?
Read the article by Luke Malone here: https://medium.com/matter/youre-16-youre-a-pedophile-you-dont-want-to-hurt-anyone-what-do-you-do-now-e11ce4b88bdb
What Happens When a Paedophile Hunter Catches Your Dad? Podcast
Across the country networks of so-called paedophile hunters are working to catch child sex offenders. They pose as boys and girls online, arranging to meet with men and then circulating videos of these “stings” online. Around 150 charges have been brought because of their work, but the naming and shaming extends to innocent families too. Andy Smythe and Catrin Nye from the Victoria Derbyshire Programme tell us the story of a paedophile hunter and the daughter of a man who was caught. Click here to listen to the podcast
Assessing children and families affected by individuals viewing child sexual abuse images on the Internet
The London Safeguarding Children Board have created a good document for assessing children and families. http://hillingdonchildcare.proceduresonline.com/pdfs/ch_sex_img_internet.pdf
A Framework for Categorizing Problematic Sexual Behavior
This was chosen as “Article of the Year” for the journal Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity. It is now freely available at https://tandfonline.com/…/
Failing the Vulnerable: Autistic people being let down by our criminal justice system
Despite receiving guidance, many of the judiciary and magistracy do not have a basic understanding of autism spectrum disorder, which is a developmental condition that cannot be treated or improved by medication. It is usually accompanied by common traits such as social anxiety leading to isolation, obsessional behaviour and often severe depression. To read more click this link
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-and-opinion/failing-the-vulnerable/5059700.article
Brain Science and The Law: From the Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Society series on Radio 4
Matthew Taylor asks if the ability to scan brains will transform our system of criminal justice. He meets the doctor who operated on a paedophile’s brain and seemingly “cured” him. He explores how studies of the brains of criminal psychopaths are changing our understanding of whether anti-social behaviour is “hard-wired” in the brain. These ideas raise the controversial question of a new legal edefence “my brain made me do it.” Should this be accepted in court? These studies have also inspired pioneering work with young children tackling brain-based bad behaviour, with remarkable new techniques. Matthew also explores the frontiers of a transformative, but potentially frightening, new technology: the brain scanner in the courtroom. He looks at how scans have been used to test memories and evidence in courts so far – including in a case of murder. Producer Mukul Devichand. Broadcast 2011. 30 minutes
Attending Juliet’s Group: The Slippery Slope Group: A New Participant’s Experience
I really did not know what to expect as I pulled into the car park outside the hall for my first ‘Slippery Slope’ therapeutic group session with Juliet Grayson, Chair of STOPSO (Specialist Treatment Organisation for the Prevention of Sexual Offending). How many people would be in the group? Why were they there? What would the ‘structure’ (what they call a client session) be like and how would I cope? Would I be accepted or rejected by my fellow group members? Since the police had called on me a few weeks before I had been on a rollercoaster, learning the true meaning of the terms ‘acceptance’ and ‘rejection’ – and how painful the latter can be. So many questions and I was admittedly more scared than curious. But I took a deep breath and walked in. Click here to read
An Insider’s View: What happened in the prison SOTP groups I undertook and how the “Hot Seat” caused stress and fear
Someone who was imprisoned for a sexual offence has anonymously written up his experience of SOTP groups, and prison. He also, at the end, talks about the different experience he has had from one-to-one therapy. It is a powerful, and shocking, read. Click here to read
Date: 28th February 2017: Online Newspaper Article
An article published on 28th February 2017 in the Guardian online about helping paedophiles.
Click here to read
**Date: 15th Feb 2017: Newspaper Article including short video
“British charity preventing paedophiles from abusing children faces closure after ‘funding crisis’” in the Sunday Express.
Click here to read
**Date: February 2017: Online Article
Paedophiles need help, not just condemnation. I should know. Featuring Jack Dawson
Click here to read
Juliet Grayson said it was better to prevent a paedophile from acting than shaming them or locking them up
Date : February 2017: Magazine article
Fundraising Magazine : Gritty causes need funds just as much as cancer, kids and kittens, says Juliet Grayson, but its a tough act
Click here to read
Date: 19th January 2017: Magazine article
Pick Me Up Magazine: Sex offenders are being offered treatment to stop them offending.
Click here to read
Date: January 2017: Online Article
The Citizen Online: Specialist charity for sex offenders faces closure
Click here to read
**Date: 18 September 2016: Online Blog Article
He Is A Paedophile, But That Does Not Make Him A Child Molester
The Huffington Post: Juliet Grayson, Chair of StopSO. The distinction between a child molester and a paedophile.
Click here to read
Letter by a paedophile who uses a sex doll
Letter about my use of sex dolls
An article written about the use of sex dolls by paedophiles “‘Child Sex Dolls Stop Me Attacking Real Children’ Says Paedophile”
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/child-sex-dolls-stop-me-attacking-real-children-says-paedophile-1641674
**Date: 26th August 2016: Online Blog Article
Preventing Child Abuse: How To Work With Paedophiles To Stop The First Crime From Happening
The Huffington Post : Juliet Grayson, Chair of StopSO.
Click here to read
**Date: 12th April 2015: Online Blog Article
Huffington Post by Dr Sarah Goode: Chemical castration – or Compassion for Paedophiles?
Click here to read
**Date: 24th February 2016: Newspaper Article
The Independent : How a brain tumour gave a man paedophilic tendencies
Click here to read
A letter from a man who uses sex dolls
Letter_re_my_use_of_dolls – from a user
An Article: The Therapist Who Treats Paedophiles and the Compassion She Feels:
About Juliet Grayson click here to read it.
Date: 11th December 2015: Article
InterCardiff: StopSO UK, An organisation’s efforts towards nipping paedophilia in the bud.
Click here to read
Back to the Root: Healing Potential Sexual Offenders’ Childhood Trauma with Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor
by Juliet Grayson. This chapter was originally published in a book called Sexual Diversity and Sexual Offending: Research, Assessment and Clinical Treatment, edited by Glyn Hudson Allez, published by Karnac in 2014, pp51-274, and is reproduced with the kind permission of Karnac Books. This is the method that Juliet uses with the Slippery Slope group in South Wales
Click here to read the chapter: Back to the Root: Healing Potential Sexual Offenders’ Childhood Trauma with Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor
Sex Offenders, Pornography and the Workplace,
by Juliet Grayson, published in Counselling at Work, Autumn 2015 Issue 86 pp8-13
Click here to read the article: Sex Offenders, Pornography and the Workplace
Date: July 14th 2015: Article
An article in the Independent about Project Prevention Dunkelfeld, and towards the end they mention the impact of mandatory reporting in the UK In Germany they treat Paedophiles as victims, not offenders.Click here to read.
Working With People Who Commit Sexual Offences and Their Families
by Juliet Grayson: published in The Psychotherapist, Issue 60 Summer 2015 pp11-12
Click here to read the article: Working With People Who Commit Sexual Offences and Their Families
Click here to read the whole magazine https://issuu.com/ukcp-publications/docs/the_psychotherapist_summer_2015_low
Know Your Law Quiz:
by Juliet Grayson, published in The Psychotherapist, Issue 60, Summer 2015 p13. This accompanies the article above.
Click here to read: Know Your Law Quiz
Click here to read: The Answers to Quiz
Andrew Smith’s article in June copy of Therapy Today
about Working with Sex Offenders, for therapists. Volume 26 Issue 5 June 2015 Page 10-14
Letter to the Psychologist. A letter written by Juliet Grayson,
published in the Psychologist, clarifying the current legal position for a therapist working in private practice (and in the NHS) around issues of mandatory reporting and the law about reporting a client who has committed a sexual offence. The Psychologist: Issue 28.3, March 2015
Click here to read the letter in The Psychologist
Therapists fear mandatory reporting with stop paedophiles seeking help
Press release from StopSO: Date July 13th 2015 After PM interview
Cash seized from criminals will help stop child sexual abuse:
Date: 14 January 2015 Gwent Police and Crime Commissioner, Ian Johnston, gave money to subsidise StopSO (to provide specialist training for therapists and to subsidise therapy for sex offenders who cannot afford to pay for themselves), said: “Since being elected into office I have focussed strongly on working with numerous partners in the community such as StopSO on tackling crime and its root causes. Projects such as this one, which have rehabilitative qualities at their core, play a vital role in supporting offenders to break free from the cycle of reoffending. It’s important to note that every £1 invested in interventions saves £33 in tackling crime overall and these partnerships and initiatives which I fund and support assist me in developing approaches which ensure people in Gwent are less affected by crime.”
Sleep walking and Sexomnia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09h34y9
Psychological help for paedophiles reduces the numbers who go on to abuse children
Date: 8th December 2014 Press Release