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Working With Sexually Abusive Adolescents

NCJ Number
170115
Editor(s)
M S Hoghughi, S R Bhate, F Graham
Date Published
1997
Length
260 pages
Annotation
These 12 articles provide an overview, interdisciplinary analysis, and practical guidance regarding the characteristics, assessment, and treatment of adolescents who sexually abuse others, regardless of whether the acts are legally defined as offenses.
Abstract
The authors are clinicians involved in daily work with adolescent sexual abusers in Great Britain; much of the guidance is intended for use in Great Britain. Individual papers focus on the nature and extent of sexual abuse by adolescents, theories of adolescent sexual abuse, techniques for managing risk of recidivism, and assessment procedures. Additional papers focus on the psychosocial treatment of adolescent sex offenders, educational approaches to treatment, cognitive-based practice, and behavioral treatment techniques. Further articles discuss techniques for relapse prevention, issues related to the context in which treatment takes place, professionals' reports to courts regarding abusive adolescents, and the characteristics needed in clinicians who work with this population and the impacts of the work on clinicians. Figures, tables, checklists, sample assessment instrument, index, and approximately 300 references