Abuse and Depression in Autistic Adolescent Sexual Offenders
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Overview
An article about how emotional neglect and abuse intersect with depression and sexual offending in individuals on the autism spectrum.
Summary
In recent years, the prevalence of individuals on our caseloads who are on the Autism Spectrum is increasing.
This is spurring an increase in research related to sexual offending and ASD.
This article, however, is from 2013 and shows this combination has been of concern for some time.
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