"First edition published in 1999"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-294) and index.

Context and systems issues -- Children and young people with sexually harmful or abusive behaviours : underpinning knowledge, principles -- Approaches and service provision / Marcus Erooga and Helen Masson -- Policy, law and organisational contexts in the United Kingdom : ongoing complexity and change / Helen Masson -- Building a comprehensive inter-agency assessment and intervention system for young people who sexually harm : the aim project / Tony Morrison and Julie Henniker -- Understanding and managing sexual behaviour problems in school settings / Carol Carson -- Assessment and planning -- Assessment issues in relation to young people who have sexually abusive behaviour / Hilary Grant -- Placement provision and placement decisions : resources and processes / Nick Bankes -- Looking after young people who are at risk for sexually abusive behaviour / Kevin Epps -- Towards a resilience based intervention model for young people with harmful sexual behaviours / Simon Hackett -- Young people who sexually abuse : the role of the new technologies / Ethel Quayle and Max Taylor -- Interventions -- Individual psychotherapy for young sexual abusers of other children / Eileen Vizard and Judith Usiskin -- Working in groups with young men who have sexually abused others / David O'Callaghan, Jeremy Quayle and Bobbie Print -- Similarities and differences in working with girls and boys who display sexually harmful behaviour : the journey continues / Jane Scott and Paula Telford -- Stop and think : changing sexually aggressive behaviour in young children / Linda Butler and Colin Elliott -- Therapeutic work with families of young people who sexually abuse / Joan Cherry and Deirdre O'Shea -- Risk prediction, decision making and evaluation of adolescent sexual abusers / Richard Beckett -- Practitioner issues -- The personal and professional context -- To work with children and young people who have sexually abused / Simon Hackett -- The responsibility avoidance syndrome : unconscious processes in practitioners? -- Therapeutic work with children and young people who sexually abuse / Nick Bankes -- References.