StopSO. Specialist Treatment Organisation for the Prevention of Sexual Offending. Juliet Grayson

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1 StopSO Specialist Treatment Organisation for the Prevention of Sexual Offending Juliet Grayson Chair of StopSO UKCP Registered Psychosexual Therapist

2 Download handouts counselling.co.uk/ nota2017

3 We do not want child abusers or internet offenders in our society yet we have done very little to prevent paedophiles from becoming child molesters

4 Specialist Treatment Organisation for the Prevention of Sexual Offending StopSo has a national network of professionals: counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists Who are trained and willing to work with people who are at risk of sexual offending or re-offending, and their families StopSO has 211 therapists training (or in training) across the UK The founding meeting for StopSO was November 2011 StopSO is a charity

5 Juliet Grayson Co-founder and chair of StopSO UKCP Accredited Psychosexual Therapist since 1994 Deliver training courses across the UK to therapists about how to work with couples and sexual problems Run personal development groups for the general public in a method called Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) One of my PBSP groups, in Chepstow integrates the general public and sex offenders

6 Juliet s chapter about using the Pesso Boyden System of Psychotherapy with sex offenders to heal their early trauma Back to the Root: Healing Potential Sexual Offenders Childhood Trauma with Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor in Sexual Diversity & Sexual Offending: Research, Assessment, and Clinical Treatment in Psychosexual Therapy Ed: Glyn Hudson Allez Published June 2014

7 Published 2016 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers

8 StopSO Vision To stop sexual offending in the UK, thus safeguarding all members of society from the devastating consequences it causes, thereby enhancing safer communities

9 Mission To ensure that those who accept responsibility for their thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and who are at risk of sexual offending or re-offending, have access to fully trained professionals, who offer treatment aimed at stopping sexually harmful behaviours Thus reducing the number of victims of sexual crimes saving them and their families huge distress

10 How clients access therapy A client who is worried about their sexual thoughts, or who has committed a sexual offence, contacts StopSO by phone, an online form, or . StopSO acts as a referral agency, evaluating the client's issues and matching them with a StopSO psychotherapist or counsellor within a few days of the initial contact Usually we have someone local to them, if not we offer a therapist via Skype or Vsee The client pays the therapist directly for the session at the therapist s usual rate

11 StopSO therapists All qualified already Recommended by supervisor and another professional Attend 3 days of specialist training Have 2 million insurance Rigorous application process Pay an annual membership fee of 50 and a referral fee of 40 per client StopSO offers supervision

12 Training courses One day training courses include: Crossing the Line: The legal and the ethical line Risk Assessment Treatment Interventions Working With The Partners Pathways to Offending New Insights into Paedophilia Working with Victims who are also Abusers

13 Professional Certificate in Therapeutic Practice with Sex Offenders: Module 1 Attachment and trauma issues Emotional issues for practitioners + using supervision well Module 2 Power and control issues and paraphilias Sexual assault and rape Module 3 Working with female offenders Working with adolescents Module 4 Internet offending and sexual addiction Paedophiles: offending and non-offending Module 5 Working with family members Couple work N. London starts July 29 & 30 then monthly

14 StopSO offers support to all professionals in the field -and that includes you if you want to join! Via an online support group StopSO website Go to for professionals Join online support group for professionals

15 StopSO Works with people at any stage of the offending process Those who are concerned about their behaviour, but have not committed an offence Those who have been arrested Through to those who come out of prison

16 Reoffending rates for Sex Offenders (SO) 1 From the Office for National Statistics: proven reoffending recidivism stats to march 2015 Proportion of offenders who reoffend for theft Proportion of sexual offenders who re-offend for any crime oportion of offenders who commit a serious violent/sexual re-offence (%) to june % 13% 0.4%

17 Juvenile crime had the lowest reoffending rate of all juvenile crimes at 14.4%, and for adult crime, only fraud had lower reoffending rate at 9.6% (compared to 13% for sex offences)

18 How many sexual offenders will re-offend for a sexual crime Karl Hanson says this will be approx. 5%

19 So we need to focus on prevention of the first crime! StopSO is particularly interested in doing that

20 Clients coming to StopSO 3 Post conviction 12% Not known to the police or local authority 37% Have been arrested 51%

21 89% refer themselves

22 StopSO Works with all kinds of sexual offenders: Sexual assault including rape Sexual grooming Child abuse Viewing indecent images of children Voyeurism Indecent exposure Bestiality and Non offending paedophiles

23 Reasons clients contact StopSO Voyeurism 2% Exhibitionism 2% Contact Offence with an adult 2% Grooming a minor 4% Other 6% Contact offence with a child 10% Family member wanting help 16% Troubling thoughts eg non offending paedophile 16% Child abuse images 42%

24 Reasons clients contact StopSO 3 Troubling thoughts 16% Child Abuse Images 42% Family member wanting help 16% Contact offence child 10% Other 6% Grooming a minor 4% Voyeurism 2% Exhibitionism 2% Contact Offence Adult 2%

25 Number of clients So far we have helped 596 people Jan March

26 Every client we work with asks for help They may ask for help for troubling thoughts They may have just been caught by a partner They may have just been arrested They are VERY open to change at this moment, so an intervention at this stage is likely to have a bigger impact than later in the process 16% come to us BEFORE they offend

27 Percentage of non offending clients contacting StopSO percentage % % Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

28 As non-offenders begin to trust StopSO, more of them are coming forward for help Surely, priority should be given to help them remain law abiding

29 Not all StopSO clients can pay Clients pay for their own therapy, directly to the therapist Occasionally StopSO raises sufficient funds to be able to subsidise someone who cannot afford to pay We have not subsidised anyone since 2015 yet more than 10% of our clients cannot afford to pay for themselves StopSO s potentially curative resources should be universally available to every active or potential sex offender in the UK

30 StopSO is very cost efficient It costs 65,000 to imprison one person once police, court costs etc are taken into account If ¼ of StopSO clients would have gone to prison for a year we have save the UK almost Almost 10 million

31 Funding StopSO StopSO has had no government funding We had 52,000 in grant funding in 2014 We had no funding in 2015, and only < 6,000 in 2016 We were going to have to close by February 2017 We did a crowdfunding campaign, and raised > 11,000 We will survive, but need 200,000 to thrive Which costs less than sending 4 people to prison for a year We are doing an online auction in the autumn If you can donate anything to the auction please let me know

32 There is not room to lock them all up The National Crime Agency estimates that 750,000 men in the Britain have an interest in having sex with children. Plus there are the sex offenders who offend against adults Yet there are < 86,000 people in prison at the moment for ALL crimes

33 Simon Bailey: national police lead of child abuse Thousands on the police data base pose no threat and don t belong in prison. We have to think about an alternative solution. [We] need to engage with service providers from mental health and the health service to work with us. StopSO currently provides this service all across the UK

34 He means those who look at child abuse images. Talking about sexualised images, they are everywhere, even at the Pfizer, the makers of Viagra, head office in Toronto

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36 In Britain we do it differently

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38 Thankfully, we maintain our standards too

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40 NSPCC 2010 figures % of under 18 s reported contact sexual abuse 65.9% was perpetrated by other children and young people under the age of 18

41 StopSO has an online questionnaire

42 What age did you first know you had inappropriate sexual thoughts or behaviour? years 11% 51% 72% years 40% years 21%

43 Encouraging young people to seek help. In the future: We need to let teenagers and young adults know: that it is safe to come forward and ask for help how and where to access that help that some people have different sexual desires, and that there is nothing wrong with that You are not responsible for your sexual desire, but you are responsible for your sexual behaviour from Project Dunkelfeld StopSO needs funding to subsidise their therapy

44 Their families need help too Families of the sexual offenders are the unacknowledged victims of sexual offending They are hugely impacted by the stress and distress of the actions of the perpetrator It is hard for them to know where to turn They have to face shame and disgust StopSO offers therapy to family members StopSO has an online support group for family members

45 StopSO is the only organisation Offering one to one therapy, short or long term, across the whole of the UK That will offer therapy PRIOR to arrest, thus offering proactive crime prevention Offering therapy to all kinds of sex offenders Offering therapeutic support to the families of S.O. That has an online support group for the families of S.O That has an online support forum for professionals

46 If we stop just one sex offender we may prevent many people from becoming victims

47 References 1. Source Table A4a/b or 4. Radford, Lorraine, Corral, Susana, Bradley, Christine, Fisher, Helen, Bassett, Claire, Howat, Nick and Collishaw, Stephan (2011) Child Abuse and Neglect in the UK Today. NSPCC, London.

48 To contact Juliet Grayson