Sexual Offending

Sexual Offending

What Works

• Currently no medication or psychological treatments meets these criteria.

What Seems to Work

• Multisystemic Therapy (MST)
• Intensive family and community-based treatment addressing the multiple factors of serious antisocial behavior in juvenile sexual abusers.
• Residential Sexual Offender Treatment
• May be necessary for public safety; for offenders, addresses both sexual and non-sexual behaviors and provides milieu treatment that varies.
• Community-based Programming
• Effective element to treatment continuum; offers advantage of shortening residential lengths of stay, improving post-residential transitioning.

 

Not Adequately Tested

• Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
• Impacts sexual preoccupations, sex drive and arousal.