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on December 15, 2017

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Conflation & misunderstanding: The problem of using language inappropriately

By Kieran McCartan, PhD, David Prescott, LICSW, & Alissa Ackerman, PhD All too often, media and societal discussions about sexual abuse and harassment focus exclusively on the offence in general and often graphic terms and the related definitions linked to that offence, rather than taking a broader yet nonetheless realistic view of the individual (which is what comprehensive risk formulation, treatment, and community management focus on). Labelling people by offence makes for accessible media coverage, but is problematic in terms of understanding those who cause harm. After all, developing an understanding of the mechanisms of abuse is vital to prevention, rehabilitation, and reintegration (and something that we have discussed before on the blog). As such, there has been a growing movement around the use of person-first language in describing people who commit sexual harm. That is, rather than stopping at terms such as �sex offender�, many of us have said for years that we should b

The 2017 ATSA Adolescent Practice Guidelines

The ATSA Adolescent Practice Guidelines (APG) has finally been published! The APG addresses the expected areas of best practices, but also offers progressive perspectives on many related issues. To obtain a copy of the 85-page 2017 APG, please see the end of this blog. Sexual offending by teenagers, as a class, is materially different from adults. The APG boldly addresses these differences, proficiently noting distinctions of adolescence, understanding youthful etiologies of sexual violations, and offering cogent recommendations for sound assessments and appropriate treatment. Such discernments are essential for systemic integrity in managing responsible interventions and successful recovery for teenagers and their families . Tom Leversee and Jacque Page co-chaired the committee that developed the APG. Because Tom was invited to co-author this blog and it would be unseemly for him to gush about the excellent product that was crafted by the APG team, Tom�s commen

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