Juvenile Sex Offenders: A Guide to Evaluation and Treatment for Mental Health Professionals

Eileen P. Ryan; Daniel C. Murrie; John A. Hunter

Juvenile Sex Offenders: A Guide to Evaluation and Treatment for Mental Health Professionals

Eileen P. Ryan, Daniel C. Murrie, and John A. Hunter

Abstract

Serving as a functional guide, this text expertly prepares clinicians for the challenging task of evaluating juveniles, picking up where traditional clinical training often falls short and providing state-of-the-art assessment techniques as well as an overview of treatment modalities. Chapters highlight the many ways in which juveniles charged with sexual offenses differ from adults, the common dilemmas facing evaluators, and the changing perceptions and legal trends with respect to youth crime. Chapters also cover sexual development and behaviors among children and adolescents, risk factors and risk assessment, case examples for working with attorneys, and interventions and pharmacological approaches. Clinical practitioners with limited forensic training will benefit from the guidance on formal forensic evaluation and the review of literature on assessment approaches specific to youth, while forensic experts will gain developmental perspective in evaluating and treating young sexual offenders. Set in a hopeful and optimistic framework, this title is a practical, empirically based guide on the best practices in evaluating and treating this poorly understood and underserved population

Keywords: evaluating juveniles, treatment modalities, youth crime, risk factors, risk assessment, forensic evaluation, juveniles, sex offenders

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Apr 2012

Print ISBN-13:: 9780195393309

Published online:: Oct 2015

DOI:: 10.1093/med:psych/9780195393309.001.0001

Authors

Eileen P. Ryan, author Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, USA

Daniel C. Murrie, author Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, USA

John A. Hunter, author Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Medicine, USA

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Front Matter
- Dedication
- Preface
1 Changing Perceptions of Juvenile Sexual Offending in Society and the Legal System Eileen P. Ryan
2 Placing Sexual Behavior Problems in Context: What Is “Normal” Sexual Behavior Among Juveniles?Daniel C. Murrie
3 Patterns of Sexual Offending in Juveniles and Risk FactorsJohn A. Hunter
4 Juvenile Sexual Offending and PsychopathologyEileen P. Ryan
5 Forensic Evaluation Versus Clinical Evaluation: How Do They Differ?Eileen P. Ryan
6 Interviewing, Evaluation, and Risk Assessment of Sexually Offending YouthEileen P. Ryan
7 Assessment Instruments for Juveniles Who Sexually OffendDaniel C. Murrie
8 Management and Treatment MethodsJohn A. Hunter
9 Biological and Pharmacologic Treatment of Sexually Aberrant BehaviorEileen P. Ryan
End Matter
- Index

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