The past two decades have seen a movement toward harsher legal sanctions and lengthy,
restrictive treatment programs for sex offenders. This has not only been the case for adults …

Background Exposure to sexual content, such as online pornography or live sexual content,
has been posited in the literature as a risk factor for problematic sexual behaviors (PSBs) in …

The third edition of the hugely successful Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical
Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a reliable and accessible …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) Task
Force on Children With Sexual Behavior Problems was formed by the ATSA Board of …

Sexual behavior problems (SBP) have been increasingly recognized in young children.
Despite rising awareness, previous research has focused on school-age children with SBP …

This study prospectively follows 135 children 5-12 years of age with sexual behavior
problems from a randomized trial comparing a 12-session group cognitive-behavioral …

Child maltreatment professionals from all disciplines struggle to find better ways of
understanding and treating the families and children affected by maltreatment. Since the mid …

During the past 25 years, North Americans have dramatically increased their awareness of
the extent of child sexual abuse and the serious consequences of such abuse for its victims …

This chapter is concerned with problematic, abusive and harmful sexual behaviours
perpetrated by children and young people. Under-reporting, the hidden nature of child …

This chapter is oriented toward the importance of the parent-child relational context and the
developmental traumatology model of child maltreatment. Thus the chapter departs …