NCJ Number
171465
Date Published
1997
Length
38 pages
Annotation
This paper discusses the special considerations or treatment modifications required for the following categories of juvenile sex offenders: young children, females, developmentally disabled youth, and violent youth.
Abstract
The section on children with a sexual abuse behavioral problem addresses assessment, client characteristics, characteristics related to the abuse cycle, and treatment (group structure and group content). The section on developmentally disabled youth considers abuse behaviors, client developmental history and life experience, and special needs in treatment. The discussion of female juvenile sex offenders considers the client's history, which typically consists of victimization by sexually abusive males, and abuse behavioral characteristics. The paper concludes with a discussion of the treatment of violent juvenile sex offenders. These are the youth who fit the extremes of adolescent diagnostic criteria, exhibit extensive psychopathy, and if they were adults would have antisocial, narcissistic, and sexual sadism diagnoses or would be perceived as potential serial offenders. A table presents a treatment and management continuum for violent youth. The treatment and management continuum has five categories of treatment settings, with guidelines for how the setting should be used to treat various variables related to the client's condition, such as aggression, cognitive issues, affective issues, behavioral control, and interpersonal relations. 1 table and 62 references