Identification of adolescent sexual offenders: A rebt model |
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Authors: | John P Seasock |
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Institution: | (1) Children's Service Center, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania;(2) 138 Sharpe Street, 18704-2831 Kingston, PA |
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Abstract: | The adolescent sexual offender is perhaps one of the most misunderstood, misdiagnosed and maltreated clinical populations
facing today's mental health practitioner. They are often the adolescents whom no one wishes to have in their family, school,
neighborhood and, sometimes, office. Since this clinical population is relatively new and research has yet to establish consistent
findings, attempts to categorize these adolescents are often subjective and inaccurate. This article outlines the problems
in traditional diagnostic schemes for identifying adolescent sexual offenders, the myths surrounding the predisposing factors
for becoming an adolescent sexual offender, the rationale and process based on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (Ellis, 1962)
for identifying adolescent sexual offenders and how to discriminate this group from adolescents who engage in inappropriate
sexual behavior. These two classifications are the two categories for identifying the adolescent sexual offenders for our
program at Children's Service Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The Children's Service Center adolescent sexual offender
program currently has a zero recidivism rate for the past four years. |
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