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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"adolescent sex"”.
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The effect of training on referrals to an outpatient adolescent sex offender treatment program
… effect of training on referrals to an outpatient adolescent sexual offender treatment program. Fifty-two juvenile court probation officers were trained to assess and identify adolescent sex offenders who met program referral criteria. Pre- and post-training tests were administered to measure the …
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Differences in Offending Patterns between Adolescent Sex Offenders High or Low in Callous and Unemotional Traits
Adolescents commit nearly one-fifth of the sex crimes each year. Among those offenders exists a group of adolescent sex offenders with callous and unemotional (CU) traits who seem to show a more severe pattern of sexual offending. The current study attempts to test the importance of these traits by …
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Trauma Responses, Abuse History, and Exposure to Violence as Risk Factors in Adolescent Sex and Non-Sex Offenders
Several risk factors have been identified for adolescent sex offenders and non-sex offenders. Such risk factors include physical and/or sexual abuse, and exposure to community and/or domestic violence. Additionally, the presence of disinhibitive factors, such as substance use and exposure to …
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Adolescent male sexual offenders' perceptions of their family characteristics
Literature on families of adolescent sexual offenders is sparse. Adolescents' perception of family structure, family adaptability and cohesion, parent-child communication, and family communication about sexuality are considered in an effort to identify family characteristics that distinguish …
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The Relationship Between Parental and Adolescent Religiosity Factors and Adolescent Sexual Risk-Taking Among Older Adolescents in the Anglophone/Latin Caribbean
<p>Problem: Sexually active youth across the Anglophone/Latin Caribbean have been identified as among the most-at-risk for HIV infection. Studies conducted in the United States have identified parental and religiosity factors associated with adolescent sexual risk-taking, but these relationships …
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Individualism and Attitudes toward Homosexual, Premarital, Adolescent, and Extramarital Sexual Behaviors
… individualism and attitudes toward four types of sexual behavior, specifically adolescent sex, premarital sex, extramarital sex, and homosexual sexual behavior. A secondary purpose was to add to the conceptual and methodological discussions of individualism. In the United States these behaviors …
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Intergenerational transmission of gender ideology: the unique associations of parental gender ideology and gendered behavior with adolescents' gender beliefs
… own gender ideology was a better predictor of adolescents' egalitarian or non-egalitarian gender beliefs. Parents and their adolescent children were assessed in terms of gender ideology and perceptions of parent marital equality. Bivariate correlations showed that parent gender ideology was a …
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An exploration of adolescents' thoughts about their sexually abusive behaviour : a qualitative study
This study aimed to explore adolescent sex offenders' thoughts about their sexuallyabusive behaviour and to understand their perspective of cognitive distortion using Interpretative Phenomenology qualitative methodology. Five participants convicted of indecent assault, attempted rape or rape were …
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Parental Educational Involvement in High School: Practice, Policy, and Implications for Low-Income and Minority Youth
… parental educational involvement strategies with adolescents. Further, extant literature has shown mixed findings regarding the effectiveness of parents’ school choice (i.e. selecting a school regardless of geographic location) for increasing parents’ educational involvement and social capital …
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Parent and Friend Emotion Socialization in Adolescence: Associations with Emotion Regulation and Internalizing Symptoms
… parents and close friends are central figures in adolescents' emotional and psychological adjustment. However, little is known about how close friends socialize adolescents' emotions or how friends' socialization messages compare to those from parents in adolescence. The present study will explore …
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The impact of school and parent attachment on rural adolescents' age at first intercourse: A comparison of contexts
… relationship between school attachment (SA) and adolescents' age at first intercourse (DV), as well as the influence of SA on DV in comparison to the influences of parent attachment (PA), other parent and school factors, and individual factors. Early first intercourse is defined as prior to age …
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Predictors of recidivism in adolescent offenders
<p>Adolescent offenders commit a significant number of physical and sexual assaults every year. A critical task for researchers and clinicians is to understand the distinct pathways that lead to these serious types of offending. The current study attempts to test the importance of these different …
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Parental Involvement in Family Therapy for Adolescents who Sexually Offend
Adolescents commit between 30% and 50% of the sexual offenses against young children in the United States. Adolescents who complete specialized treatment for sexual offending, including family therapy, have lower rates of sexual recidivism. Despite the evidence that including families in …
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Sex talk: Factors that influence parent-child communication about sex
<p>Between 50 and 70% of young people are first sexually active between the ages of 15 and 17, and almost 90% by age 18. This early sexual debut puts adolescents at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancy if they are uneducated about safe sex. For this reason, it is …