Clinicians and other professionals evaluating, managing, and treating sexually abusive youth are frequently called upon to offer judgments regarding risk for sexual reoffense. There are currently no empirically validated methods for accurately classifying risk among this population. Therefore, those faced with this task have an obligation to…

Anger has been shown to be an important factor in occupational maladjustment, family conflict, physical and sexual assault, criminal behavior, and substance abuse. It has also been linked with such adverse health outcomes as hypertension, heart disease, and cancer. Focusing on anger proneness, conceptualized as a relatively enduring propensity to…

A growing body of empirical research strongly suggests that adolescents and young adults are increasingly becoming both victims and perpetrators of crime and abuse enabled by information technology. The US federal government has stressed technological, legislative, and law-enforcement solutions to these problems. Efforts to protect children have…

Little research is available on the assessment and treatment of deaf people who commit sexual offences. Most studies provide statistical information on offenders or medical discussion on the causes of violence among deaf people. Sex offender treatment programmes for deaf people are rare internationally and only two such groups exist in Europe. The…

This report describes how a victim of sexual misconduct by a therapist and the victim's response to a conference presentation by a member of the Wisconsin State Psychology Examining Board on the stages involved in the filing, investigation, prosecution, and adjudication of complaints made to the Board helped to create the Wisconsin Coalition on…

Examines treatment for child victims of sexual abuse and notes that coordination of services can be accomplished through use of a multidisciplinary team approach to case management. Provides information about roles of various team members and suggestions for organizing a child sexual abuse multidisciplinary team. (Author/NB)

Describes sexual abuse prevention program designed to inform elementary school children about various aspects of child sexual abuse. Discusses implementation process and program components for implementation with second, fourth, and sixth graders. Various activity summaries are included. (NB)

Relates how a professor, for a Theater in Education project in British Columbia, produced and directed "No More Secrets," focusing on preventing child sexual abuse. States that grades five through eight were targeted to transfer learning about sexual abuse, and to tap the emotional experiences of the child to encourage disclosure. (PA)

Focuses on the use of children's literature in the treatment of child abuse, a method referred to as bibliotherapy. Describes children's books that can be used in this approach and presents suggestions for follow-up activities. (NH)

A hypothesis, based on concepts of narcissism and perversion, is presented of the mental functioning of the physically and sexually abusive parent. The concept also gives insight into the structuring of the personality of the child-victim, who undergoes the risk of himself becoming a physically and/or sexually abusive parent. (DB)

Discusses the need for a coherent framework for tackling child abuse. Topics include local government organizational issues that affect policy development, general issues affecting policy, policy areas that relate to decision making, training, evaluation, identification, interviews of children, action following investigation, and long-term…

Traditional psychotherapy, individual or group, never thoroughly resolves issues of perceived culpability, positive identification with other survivors, grief, or low self-esteem. To address this issue, a weekend retreat was designed that joins adult and adolescent women who were sexually abused as children. The tremendous success of this modality…

Students and employees are legally protected against sexual harassment, regardless of the perpetrator's age or status. Although caution is needed when responding to complaints, school leaders should avoid making backroom deals with staff members accused of molestation or improper sexual conduct. All school community members need information and…

Uses Max Weber's ideas of domination to analyze the authority structure in an English private boy's school where physical and sexual abuse were perpetrated by the school's principal and owner. Discusses how domination was constructed and maintained, how victims were selected, and how relations outside the school were managed. Suggests current…

A study (n=242) investigated the effectiveness of a simple seven-item scale designed to quantify indices of emotional distress during the rectal-genital phase of a child sexual-abuse examination. The Genital Examination Distress Scale found increased distress was associated with positive physical findings. (CR)