Dealing with Juvenile Sex Offenders with Impaired Families.pptVIP

D. X. Swenson G. Henkel-Johnson, MnATSA, 2002 * Dealing with Juvenile Sex Offenders with Impaired Families MnATSA 6th Annual Conference March 27-29, 2002 David X. Swenson Ph.D. LP Gerald Henkel-Johnson Psy.D. LP Specializing in Forensic Psychology dswenson@ gjohnson@ How to make and unmake a monster: the development treatment of a sex offender to identify the developmental influences on the juvenile sex offender to describe the maintenance cycle of offense to know the essential links for establishing motivation to understand essential role of families in treatment to identify treatment objectives for family types to determine amenability to treatment to identify substitutes neutralizers for nonparticipating families Overview Offender Cycle Developmental Influences Client Family Amenability Substitutes Neutralizers How does it develop? How is it maintained? How amenable to change? How to make the best of a worst situation? A series of models that help understand the development of and intervention points for juvenile sex offenders and their families Only 2-4% of adolescents are responsible for most sexually assaultive behavior Nearly ? million youth each year are involved in violent crime About 63% of youthful sex offenders have committed nonsex offenses 40% of the offenders who victimized children under age 6 were juveniles Youths 18 account for about 10% of all sex related murders; 27% of child sex homicides JSO’s are responsible for about 20% rapes 60-80% of child molestation Adolescent offenders often have a history of multiple victims prior to their first arrest. The average number of victims is 7 with some offenders having as many as 30 or more victims in their past. Adolescents who have been physically abused are 7.6 times more likely to rape or sodomize other children compared to sexually abused adolescents Patterns of aggression set by age 8 often continue into adulthood Effective