TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - MEGA: A New Paradigm in Protocol Assessing Sexually Abusive Children and Adolescents
JO  - Journal of child and adolescent trauma
A1  - Miccio-Fonseca, L. C.
SP  - 124
EP  - 124
VL  - 2
IS  - 2
N2  - 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 />
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SN  - 1936-1521
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19361520902922434
ID  - ref1
ER  -