Training Description
Drawing upon Dr. Franca Cortoni’s clinical and training experience, this 1.5 hour workshop will introduce participants to a practical, empirically-based, gender-specific, and user-friendly approach to the assessment, treatment, and management of female sexual offenders.
Trainer Biography
Franca Cortoni, PhD, C.Psych, is Associate Professor of Forensic Psychology in the School of Criminology of the University of Montreal. Dr. Cortoni teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses on specialized topics on offenders, including sexual offenders; cognitive-behavioral interventions with offenders; female offenders; and theories of criminal violence. Since 1989, she has worked with and conducted research on male and female sexual offenders in a variety of Canadian and Australian penitentiaries and community settings. In addition, she has provided consultancy and training services in the assessment, treatment, and management of both male and female sexual offenders in Canada, Australia, the U.S., and the UK. She is the author of Female Sexual Offenders: A Handbook for Assessment, Treatment and Management, Safer Society Press (2017).
Learning Objectives
This training is designed to help you:
- Appreciate the problems inherent in adapting male-based information to the assessment, treatment, and management of female offenders
- Understand the different nature of female risk and treatment needs
- Benefit from empirically-grounded gender-specific guidelines on how to assess, treat and manage female sexual offenders