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| Elizabeth J LetourneauSummaryAffiliation: Medical University of South Carolina Country: USA Publications
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A comparison of objective measures of sexual arousal and interest: visual reaction time and penile plethysmographyElizabeth J Letourneau
Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, Suite CPP, Box 250861, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA
Sex Abuse 14:207-23. 2002..e., men with female child victims had significantly lower arousal to female child stimuli than did men in other victim choice categories)...
Effects of sex offender registration policies on juvenile justice decision makingElizabeth J Letourneau
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Sex Abuse 21:149-65. 2009..If replicated, the results indicate a need to reform registration policies as applied to juveniles...- Recidivism rates for registered and nonregistered juvenile sexual offendersElizabeth J Letourneau
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Sex Abuse 20:393-408. 2008..Specifically, registered youth are more likely than nonregistered youth to have new nonperson offense convictions across follow-up. Public policy implications of these findings are discussed... 
Multisystemic therapy for juvenile sexual offenders: 1-year results from a randomized effectiveness trialElizabeth J Letourneau
Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
J Fam Psychol 23:89-102. 2009....- Case study: multisystemic therapy for adolescents who engage in HIV transmission risk behaviorsElizabeth J Letourneau
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 35:120-7. 2010..Targeted behaviors included medication nonadherence, risky sexual behaviors, and substance use... - Mediators of change for multisystemic therapy with juvenile sexual offendersScott W Henggeler
Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 77:451-62. 2009..These findings have important implications for the community-based treatment of juvenile sexual offenders... - Treatment outcome and criminal offending by youth with sexual behavior problemsElizabeth J Letourneau
Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Child Maltreat 13:133-44. 2008..Few youth in either group had sexual offenses. The importance of these findings for clinical and policy decision making is discussed... - Juveniles who sexually offend: recommending a treatment program and level of careR Gregg Dwyer
Forensic Psychiatry Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 20:413-29. 2011..This article reviews the history of intervention approaches, summarizes specialized evaluation methods and addresses the assessment of juvenile recidivism risk... - Juvenile sex offenders: a case against the legal and clinical status quoElizabeth J Letourneau
Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA
Sex Abuse 17:293-312. 2005..Fortunately, a paradigm shift that acknowledges these developmental factors appears to be emerging in clinical areas of intervention, although this trend does not appear as prevalent in legal sanctions... - Transportability of multisystemic therapy: evidence for multilevel influencesSonja K Schoenwald
Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street Suite CPP, PO Box 250861, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA
Ment Health Serv Res 5:223-39. 2003..Implications for the transfer of evidence-based psychosocial treatments for youth to usual care practice settings are discussed... - Caregiver-therapist ethnic similarity predicts youth outcomes from an empirically based treatmentColleen A Halliday-Boykins
Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 73:808-18. 2005..This study shows the importance of examining the effects of both client and therapist ethnicity on outcomes from empirically based treatments... - Sex offender registration and notification policy increases juvenile plea bargainsElizabeth J Letourneau
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Sex Abuse 25:189-207. 2013..Results were either nonsignificant or of much lower magnitude for the comparison assault and robbery analyses. Suggestions for revising South Carolina and national registration and notification policies are discussed... - Predicting therapist adherence to a transported family-based treatment for youthSonja K Schoenwald
Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 34:658-70. 2005..Low caregiver education and African American ethnicity predicted higher adherence. With the exception of youth psychosocial functioning, indicators of severity of youth problems did not predict adherence... - Toward effective quality assurance in evidence-based practice: links between expert consultation, therapist fidelity, and child outcomesSonja K Schoenwald
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 33:94-104. 2004..These findings suggest the availability to clinicians of expert consultation can impact clinician fidelity to a treatment model and child outcomes... - Children and adolescents with sexual behavior problemsElizabeth J Letourneau
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA
Child Maltreat 9:49-61. 2004..Youth in all groups responded with clinically relevant and statistically significant reductions in problem behaviors at posttreatment... - The prevalence of youth with autism spectrum disorders in the criminal justice systemCatherine A Cheely
Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Rutledge Avenue, MSC 567, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 42:1856-62. 2012..When compared to the overall SC ADDM sample, charged youth were less likely to have comorbid intellectual disability... - Transporting efficacious treatments to field settings: the link between supervisory practices and therapist fidelity in MST programsScott W Henggeler
Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, Suite CPP, P.O. Box 250861, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 31:155-67. 2002..The findings provide a valuable step in examining the determinants of therapist fidelity to complex treatments in real-world clinical settings... - Introduction to special issue on children with sexual behavior problemsJane F Silovsky
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, USA
Child Maltreat 13:107-9. 2008 - A comment on the first reportElizabeth J Letourneau
Sex Abuse 16:77-81. 2004