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