Home

Help for parents

Legislative Update

News

Understanding the issue

Personal stories

Media coverage

Criticism from experts

Juvenile sex law

Get involved

Discussion board

Reading list

Organizations and links

Research on youth sexuality

Source of information for this page:

Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, The Sex Offender Treatment Provider Directory For Maryland, Baltimore, 2003.

About the author

MARYLAND TREATMENT PROVIDERS FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WHO VIOLATE SEX LAWS

Please note:

1. It is unknown how many children and adolescents are required to attend these clinics for non-coercive activity, since providers often do not distinguish between coercive and consensual behavior when they believe it is age-inappropriate, or when it involves siblings or age differences.

2. There is no way of knowing how humanely a particular provider administers cognitive restructuring.

3. Many of these clinics work with adults as well as children. (Those who do are indicated.) The information below comes from a directory which does not distinguish between methods used on different age groups. Therefore, it does not give the age of the youngest patients who receive sex-drive reducing drugs, aversion therapy, or other arousal reconditioning methods.

Providers:

Mark Alkire
101 South Center Street, Cumberland, MD 21502, 301-268-4156
Adolescents only
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification, aversion therapy, arousal reconditioning

Baltimore County Department of Social Services
6401 York Road, Baltimore, MD 21212, 410-853-3712
Adolescents, younger children, developmentally disabled
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification, refers patients to outside provider for sex-drive reducing drugs and polygraph

Center For Children
P.O. Box 2924, LaPlata, MD 20646 , 301-609-9887
Adolescents, younger children, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification, arousal reconditioning

CHOICES: A Better Way
823 E. Belvedere Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21212, 410-433-5712
Adolescents, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

Stephen M. Chop
1605 Cromwell Bridge Road, Baltimore, MD 21234, 410-882-9133
Adolescents, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

Clinical & Forensic Associates
3835 Farragut Avenue, Kensington, MD 20895, 301-949-4907
Adolescents, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification, aversion therapy

Sheila L. Cohen
7338 Baltimore Avenue, College Park, MD 20740, 301-652-0995
Adolescents, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

Comprehensive Treatment Center of Maryland
1110 Benfield Boulevard, Suite H, Millersville, MD 21108, 410-987-3615
Adolescents, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification, aversion therapy, arousal reconditioning

Russell A. Dick
40 South Church Street, Suite 105, Westminster, MD 21157, 410-848-9244
Adolescents, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification, arousal reconditioning

Eastern Shore Psychological Services
2336 Goddard Parkway, Salisbury, MD 21801, 410-334-6961
Adolescents, younger children, developmentally disabled, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

Joseph M. Eisenberg
1402 York Road, Lutherville, MD 21093, 410-321-9101
Adolescents, younger children, developmentally disabled, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

Laura Estupinan-Kane
801 Tollhouse Avenue, Suite A2, Frederick, MD 21701, 301-777-7256
Adolescents, younger children, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification, aversion therapy

Family Advocacy Services
1540 Caton Center Drive, Suite F, Baltimore, MD 21227, 410-737-4200
Adolescents
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification, arousal reconditioning

Family and Children’s Services
4623 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21209, 410-366-1980
Adolescents, younger children
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

Family Trauma Services of Maryland
P.O. Box 791, Oxon Hill, MD 20750-0791, 301-567-6195
Adolescents, developmentally disabled
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification, aversion therapy, arousal reconditioning

Futeral Institute
7511 Slade Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21208, 410-580-1136
Adolescents, younger children, developmentally disabled, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

Harford County Sexual Disorders Group
101 South Main Street, Room 307, Bel Air, MD 21014, 410-879-2470
Adolescents, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

Mark Hirschfeld
11160 Veirs Mill Road, Suite 500, Wheaton, MD 23902, 301-933-6182
Adolescents, younger children, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

In a Family Way
14300 Gallant Fox Lane, Suite 204, Bowie, MD 20715, 301-805-5124
Adolescents, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

In the Newness of Life, Inc.
6620 Eberlee Drive, Suite 302, Baltimore, MD 21215, 410-764-3600
Adolescents, younger children
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

Eric J. Lane
P.O. Box 3147, Catonsville, MD 21228, 443-280-2916
Adolescents, younger children, developmentally disabled, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

Life Mastery Center
10635 York Road, Cockeysville, MD 21030, 410-628-2121
Adolescents, younger children, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

Maryland Institute
7307 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 208, College Park, MD 20740, 301-277-3250
Adolescents, younger children, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification, sex-drive reducing drugs

Deborah R. Matthews
P.O. Box 1476, Solomons, MD 20688-1476, 410-326-6070
Adolescents, younger children, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification, refers patients to outside provider for sex-drive reducing drugs

National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma
104 E. Biddle Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, 410-539-1661
Adolescents, developmentally disabled, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification, sex-drive reducing drugs

Joseph G. Poirier
966 Hungerford Drive, Suite 14-B, Rockville, MD 20850, 301-545-0039
Adolescents, younger children, developmentally disabled, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification, aversion therapy, arousal reconditioning

Seth C. Ramer
P.O. Box 82, Cumberland, MD 21501, 301-895-3117
Adolescents, younger children, developmentally disabled, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

Melvin A. Shandler
3102 Woodhollow Drive, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, 301-652-3610
Adolescents, younger children, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification,

University Psychological Center
6201 Greenbelt Road, College Park, MD 20740, 301-345-1919
Adolescents, adults
Cognitive restructuring and/or abuse cycle identification

See sample materials used in treatment
Read conversations with treatment providers

• Continue to Ethical Violations