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Ethical Treatment for All Youth
www.ethicaltreatment.org
Email: etay@ethicaltreatment.org

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UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUE

The following articles provide extensive information about invalid diagnosis and abusive treatment practices used with children and teenagers who violate sex laws, and why they are used.

• Introduction: When experts are wrong
• Casualties of the war on sexual abuse
  
• Diagnosis
• Lack of knowledge
• Confused definitions
• Criminalization of childhood sexuality
  
• Invalid instruments
• Treatment
• Humiliation as therapy
• Arousal reconditioning
• Dangerous drugs
• Striking comparisons with treatment for violent behavior
  
• Sample harmful treatment materials
• Maryland treatment providers
• Conversations with treatment providers
• Ethical violations
• Prologue: Deja vu