A comprehensive overview of research regarding sexual development and behavior in children and adolescents, including normative development/behavior, clinically abnormal development and behavior, and forensic issues relating to sexual behavior in minors.
Preface
Part I – Ethical Issues Pertaining to the Sexuality of Minors
1. Choosing for Children Michael Lavin
Part II - Research Strategies: How Do We "Know" What We "Know?"
2. Research Methods: Current Strategies, Obstacles to Research, and
Future Directions
Daniel S. Bromberg and William T. O’Donohue
3. Research Syntheses Related to Childhood and Adolescent
Sexuality: A Critical Review
Tania B. Huedo-Medina, Estrellita Ballester, and Blair T.
Johnson
4. Applications of Small-n Research Design in Child and Adolescent
Sexuality
Gregory S. Snyder and Stacy Shaw
Part III - Child and Adolescent Development
5. Sexual Development
Kate Mills Drury and William M. Bukowski
6. Sexual Behavior of Prepubertal Children
Christopher Campbell, Ashwini Mallappa, Amy B. Wisniewski, and Jane
F. Silovsky
7. Sexual Development in Adolescents
J. Dennis Fortenberry
8. Sexual Development in Girls: "Normative" Development and
Development of Paraphilias and Sexual Offending Behaviors
Lucia F. O’Sullivan and Scott T. Ronis
9. The Sexual Health of Adolescents: When, Where, and Why
Adolescents Use Contraceptives
Lori A.J. Scott-Sheldon and Blair T. Johnson
10. Influence of Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use on Sexual
Behavior
Michael Windle, Jessica M. Sales, and Rebecca C. Windle
11. Sexual-Minority, Gender-Nonconforming, Transgender Youths
Lisa M. Diamond
Part IV - Children and Adolescents as Sexual Abuse Victims
12. Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse
Samantha L. Friedenberg, David J. Hansen, and Mary Fran Flood
13. Child Sexual Abuse and Adolescent Sexuality
Christine Wekerle, Terry Bennett, and Karen Francis
14. Memory and Complications to the Interviewing of Suspected Child
and Adolescent Victims
Matthew Fanetti, Rachel Fondren-Happel, and William T.
O’Donohue
15. Treating Children and Adolescents in the Aftermath of Sexual
Abuse
Elisabeth Pollio, Alissa Glickman, Leah Behl, and Esther
Deblinger
16. Medical Assessment and Treatment of Suspected Child and
Adolescent Victims
Reena Isaac and Angelo P. Giardino
17. Teaching Sexual Abuse Prevention Skills to Children
Raymond G. Miltenberger and Laura Hanratty
18. Adolescence and Commercial Sexual Exploitation: Prostituted
Girls in the U.S.
Linda M. Williams
19. Legal Responses to Adolescent Victims of Sexual Violence
Roger J.R. Levesque
Part V - Children with Sexual Behavior Problems and Adolescent
Sexual Offenders
20. Children with Sexual Behavior Problems
Jane F. Silovsky, Lisa M. Swisher, Jimmy Widdifield, Jr., and Vicky
L. Turner
21. Adolescents Adjudicated for Sexual Offenses
Amanda M. Fanniff and Judith V. Becker
22. Legal Responses to Adolescents’ Sexual Offending
Roger J.R. Levesque
Daniel Bromberg, Ph.D., ABPP, is the Director of Special Psychological Services, LLC. He is a licensed psychologist in New Jersey and New York State. He is board certified in Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology.Dr. Bromberg’s primary interest is in assessing and providing evidence-based treatment to individuals displaying sexual behavioral problems. He works with children displaying sexual behavioral problems, adolescent sex offenders, and adult offenders, some of whom are supervised by the Sex Offender Management Unit of the New Jersey State Parole Board. In addition, he provides a range of assessment and treatment services regarding child maltreatment.Before launching Special Psychological Services, LLC, Dr. Bromberg’s employment experience included working as a psychologist in a juvenile secure care facility, working as a staff psychologist at a regional diagnostic and treatment center for child abuse and neglect, and working as a school psychologist with children and adolescents displaying severe behavioral problems. William O’Donohue, Ph.D., is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Nevada Reno. He has published over 70 books and 200 journal articles. He has directed a free treatment program for twenty years for children who have been sexually abused and adults who have been sexually assaulted.
"Editors Bromberg and O'Donohue present this reference on the sensitive topic of sexuality in non-adult populations. The book is divided into five general headings of professional ethics, research strategies, sexuality across development, sexual victimization, and sexual behavior problems, with the sections on development and victimization being largest.The book is intended for a broad audience, from researchers and mental health professionals to legal experts."--Reference & Research Book News, October 2013
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