Comportement des enfants et des adolescents

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Unproven Interventions with Children Who Sexually Offend

Joshua Eli

This composition raises serious enterprises regarding the wide use of unproven interventions with kids who sexually offend and suggests innovative styles for addressing these enterprises. Dominant interventions i.e.,cognitive- behavioral group treatments with an emphasis on relapse forestallment) generally fail to address the multiple determinants of juvenile sexual offending and could affect in iatrogenic issues. Methodologically sophisticated exploration studies (i.e., randomized clinical trials) are demanded to examine the clinical and cost- effectiveness of cognitive- behavioral group interventions, especially those delivered in domestic settings. The moral and ethical accreditation for similar exploration is apparent when considering the volition, in which clinicians and society are willing to live in ignorance regarding the etiology and treatment of juvenile sexual offending and to consign offending youths to the implicit detriment of untested interventions. Encouraging signs of a changing ethical climate include recent civil backing of a randomized clinical trial examining treatment effectiveness with sexually offending youths and the preface of separate (i.e., developmentally informed) clinical and legal interventions for juveniles.