%0 Journal Article
%T MEGA: A New Paradigm in Protocol Assessing Sexually Abusive Children and Adolescents
%J Journal of child and adolescent trauma
%D 2009
%A Miccio-Fonseca, L. C.
%V 2
%N 2
%P 124-124
%X This article presents the Multiplex Empirically Guided Inventory of Ecological Aggregates for Assessing Sexually Abusive Adolescents and Children, or MEGA, a comprehensively-structured risk assessment protocol for assessing sexually abusive behavior in all youth ages 19 years and under. This includes male and female adjudicated and non-adjudicated youth, children under 12, and developmentally delayed youth. MEGA (Miccio-Fonseca, 2006b) is composed of seven aggregates and four distinct risk scales: (a) risk, (b) protective risk, (c) estrangement, and (d) persistent sexual deviancy. Exemplary internal consistency reliability data (agr  > .80, p = .001) on a sample of N = 1,184 (979 males and 205 females) are presented; findings on the estrangement and persistent sexual deviancy scales are discussed in depth.  Keywords: assessment tools; female sex offenders; juvenile sex offenders; recidivism; risk assessment; sexually abusive youthful offenders<p />
%G 
%I Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group
%@ 1936-1521
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19361520902922434