title: [Adolescents engaging in sexually offending behavior].
abstract: Sexually offending behavior by adolescents may be directed towards children, age-mates and adults. Neurocognitive and psychiatric disorders and the associated inability to age-related interpersonal relationships and inability to control the sexual desires activated during adolescence may lead a young person to seek inappropriate sexual satisfaction from children. Sometimes the offenses are part of antisocial development. Interventions should be focused on the distorted cognitions and attitudes maintaining the injurious sexual behavior, and on the risk of criminal behavior in general. Pharmacological therapy, mainly with SSRI drugs, has also been tested in adolescents.
authors.forename: Riittakerttu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kaltiala-Heino
authors.forename: Marja
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Työläjärvi
authors.forename: Markku
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eronen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*