ABSTRACT

A new risk/treatment needs protocol for assessing “juveniles with sex offenses” operationalized in the Treatment Needs and Progress Scale (TNPS) was recently introduced, prompting quick embrace before any serious examination. This article critiques the proposed protocol and TNPS. Highlighted are misleading statements, substantial omissions related to review of research, and significant margins of TNPS underpinnings that cause considerable pause. Target population, essential to adopting and implementing TNPS, is not clearly stated. Multiple basic rudimentary steps are missing in the research protocol for two age groups. The “new” protocol appears to be a re-installment of the old one, applying templates from adult tools and empirical findings on adults to adolescents, thus treating youth like adults, an outdated stance in contemporary research and clinical practice related to risk assessment of sexually abusive youth..

摘要

最近引入了一种新的风险/治疗需求规程，用于评估在“治疗需求和进度量表”（TNPS）中实施的“性犯罪少年”，促使人们在认真检查之前迅速接受。本文对提议的协议和TNPS进行了评论。突出显示的是误导性陈述，与研究回顾有关的重大遗漏以及TNPS基础的大量空白，这些空白会引起相当大的停顿。对于采用和实施TNPS至关重要的目标人群，没有明确说明。两个年龄组的研究方案中缺少多个基本步骤。“新”协议似乎是对旧协议的重新安装，将成人工具的模板和对成年人的经验发现应用于青少年，从而像对待成年人一样对待年轻人，