Ethical Issues of sexual juvenile offenders; The mental health treatment within youth programs has been highlighted as adopting humiliating techniques to treat juvenile offenders.
So yesterday was April fools day and some of you will have had to endure some humiliation for the amusement of others but what about humiliation as a therapy?
Humiliation as a therapy for the minor first time sexual offences of young people – some as young as 14 years old.
Ethical Treatment of all Youth
Advocating for the humane and just treatment of children and teenagers accused of violating sex laws
Humiliation therapy comprises of;
Cognitive restructuring attempts to convince children and teenagers that their prohibited sexual behaviors, regardless of whether they were consensual or coercive, were harmful and reprehensible. The approach is based on the assumption that all such behaviors are aggressive and result from distorted beliefs and thoughts called “cognitive distortions.”
Source Ethical Treatment of all Youth
This is a brilliant reference site for parents of children accused of a sexual offence.
Alledgedly abusive treatment also happens in New York
Watch this news clip
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