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dc.contributor.authorSmallbone, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorCrissman, Belinda
dc.contributor.authorRayment-McHugh, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:52:43Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:52:43Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2010-08-13T07:25:00Z
dc.identifier.issn0735-3936
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/bsl.905
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/30700
dc.description.abstractThis article reports a test of multisystemic predictors of therapeutic engagement (TE) with adolescent sexual offenders (ASOs), and an evaluation of clinical efforts to improve TE with this client group. First, clinicians rated their TE with 105 Australian court-referred male ASOs (M?=?15.53 years; SD?=?1.30 years), who participated in treatment between 2001 and 2005. For this cohort, correlation analysis showed impulsivity/antisociality, negative peer relationships, and indigenous race to be associated with poorer TE. Multiple regression analysis identified impulsivity/antisociality and indigenous race as significant unique predictors. Clinical efforts subsequently focused on improving TE, particularly with higher-antisocial youth and with indigenous youth and their families. Clinicians then rated TE with a second, independent cohort of 54 court-referred male ASOs (M?=?15.44 years; SD?=?1.22 years), who participated in the modified treatment between 2006 and 2009. A two-way ANCOVA, controlling for impulsivity/antisociality, indicated significant improvements in TE for both indigenous and non-indigenous ASOs. Despite these general improvements, indigenous ASOs remained comparatively less engaged than their non-indigenous counterparts.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons Ltd.
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom862
dc.relation.ispartofpageto877
dc.relation.ispartofissue6
dc.relation.ispartofjournalBehavioral Sciences and the Law
dc.relation.ispartofvolume27
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw in context
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied and developmental psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4402
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4804
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5201
dc.titleImproving therapeutic engagement with adolescent sexual offenders
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
gro.date.issued2009
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorCrissman, Belinda R.
gro.griffith.authorSmallbone, Stephen W.


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