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California Sex Offender Management Board Releases Initial Assessment, by Suzanne Brown-McBride and the CASOMB Staff

Eradicating the Pandemic of Child Sexual Abuse, by Heather Steele, MBA

Challenging  Traditional  Paradigms:  Applying  the  Trauma  Outcome  Process  (TOPA)  Model In  Treating  Sexually  Abusive  Youth  Who Have  Histories  of  Abusive  Trauma, by Lucinda A. Rasmussen, PhD, LCSW

Abuse, Affective Dysregulation and Shame: Neglected Aspects of Sex Offender Treatment: Where are We Now, & How Did We Get here?, by Jay Adams, Ph.D.

Implementing MEGA, A New Tool for Assessing Risk of Concern for Sexually Abusive Behavior in Youths Ages 19 and Under: An Empirically Guided Paradigm for Risk Assessment, by L.C. Miccio-Fonseca, Ph.D. and Lucinda A. Rasmussen, Ph.D., LCSW.

Good People Do Bad Things, Adapted from Prescott, D.S., and Longo, R.E. (2005 in Press) (References Included)

Some Thoughts About Treatment Efficacy and the Polygraph, by Kim English, M.A. (References Included)

The Use of Popular Video in Treatment by Eugene A. Merlin, MFT

Comparison of PPG and AASI Assessing Offenders by Wes Maram, Ph.D.

Community Management of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Who Have Sexual Behavior Problems by Gerry Blasingame, MA
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Reasons Why We Can’t Profile Sex Offenders
by L.C. Miccio-Fonseca, Ph. D. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Juvenile Sex Offender Needs vs Education
by Craig Fredericks, MLMFT, Teen Triumph (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Sexual Offender Treatment Enhanced by Consideration of Learning Styles by Keven Lee, MFT (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Let’s Talk Dope by Richard Chreighton Cole, PhD (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

What Practitioners Think About Ethical Dilemmas of Post-Conviction Sex Offender Testing (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Risk Assessment: A Short Introduction (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Risk Assessment Part 2 (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Attempting to Measure Sexual Deviance Among Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Using Abel Assessement for Sexual Interest (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Five Years Later: Wishing I Knew Then What I Know Now by Jennifer Morant, M.S.W. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Dressed to Heal (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Psychopharmacology and Juvenile Sex Offenders by Paul Copeland D.O.

Developmental Disability and Culpability by Gerry Blasingame, M.A., L.M.F.T.

Victim Work:Fertile Training For Offender Therapists by Kathy Ellis, LMFT and Niki Delson, LCSW

Internet Crimes Against Children - US Department of Justice Report

Living with Sex Offenders: Enhancing The Containment Model by Ron Kokish

Why Adults Molest Chidren by Ron Kokish

Victimization to Perpetrator? by Niki Delson

Overcoming Denial Among Sexual Offenders by Gerry D. Blasingame

"Roofies" - Date Rape Drug by Trinka Porrata

Recidivism and Treatment Effectiveness with Adolescent Sexual Offenders by Niki Delson

Hidden Dangers On The Information Superhighway by Matthew Rosenberg

Sex Offender Treatment: Does It Work? Is It Worth It? by Ron Kokish

Developing The Team In Work With The Sex Offender:
A Treater’s Point of View
by Marcia Rogers, LCSW

Future Directions: Defining the Challenges that Lie Ahead by John A. Hunter, Jr., Ph.D. - University of Arizona, Tucson

Challenging Our Thoughts by Robert E. Freeman-Longo, MRC, LPC, CCJS