The female offender’s self-acceptance and positive self-regard, elaborated upon in this chapter, is best achieved in the community-based correctional setting. Specifically, it involves treatment staff developing new competencies and working collectively to provide what is called, “a team-based program of systemic treatment.” This chapter applies the lens of systems theory (an understanding of individual psychotherapy that is gradually taking place) from a depth-psychological perspective. It offers the view that the treatment relationship, the interaction of therapist and client, form a system within which the conflicting emotions of the client can move toward resolution. It is argued that in the context of a system-oriented team effort to restore female offenders to normal, productive lives, the best contribution of psychotherapy is a correction of the client’s negative self-regard. References