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This article is intended to provide a broad overview of the treatment issues and processes for adolescent sexual offenders. Through the authors' experience treating hundreds of juvenile sex offenders in a state correctional institution, five major treatment tasks are identified: 1. breaking through the offender's denial; 2. addressing offenders' own history of victimization and its impact on their present lifestyle; 3. confronting dysfunctional attitudes and values that support sexual victimization; 4. teaching social skills and 5 changing deviant arousal patterns.
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Mr. Kahn is Program Director, Echo Glen Children's Center and Affiliate Instructor, University of Washington, School of Social Work. Ms. Lafond is a Juvenile Rehabilitation Administrator at Echo Glen Children's Center.
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Kahn, T.J., Lafond, M.A. Treatment of the adolescent sexual offender. Child Adolesc Soc Work J 5, 135–148 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00778822
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