Depression - Mitigation Aide https://mitigationaide.com Evidence Based Psychological Profiles of Criminality Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:57:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Abuse and Depression in Autistic Adolescent Sexual Offenders https://mitigationaide.com/abuse-and-depression-in-autistic-adolescent-sexual-offenders/ https://mitigationaide.com/abuse-and-depression-in-autistic-adolescent-sexual-offenders/#respond Fri, 08 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://mitigationaide.com/?p=1351 An article about how emotional neglect and abuse intersect with depression and sexual offending in individuals on the autism spectrum.

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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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