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Juvenile Sex Offender

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Sexual abuse of children is a pernicious crime and significant social malady. Sexual victimization of a child by another child can have just as devastating impact on development as if perpetrated by an adult. Because of this adverse impact, appropriate and thorough assessment along with subsequent treatment and close monitoring of treatment progress is vitally important. This chapter furnishes an overview of the childhood sexual offender and reviews important etiological, assessment, and treatment issues for youth sex offenders. Recommendations for future clinical and research endeavors are also presented.

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  1. Graduate Program in School Psychology, Rider University, 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ, 08648, USA

    Stefan C. Dombrowski (Professor & Director)

  2. Department of Graduate Education, Leadership and Counseling, Rider University, 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ, 08648, USA

    Karen L. Gischlar

  3. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, 6-135 Education North Bldg., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Dombrowski, S.C., Gischlar, K.L., Mrazik, M. (2011). Juvenile Sex Offender. In: Assessing and Treating Low Incidence/High Severity Psychological Disorders of Childhood. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9970-2_9

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