Juvenile Sex Offenders: A Guide to Evaluation and Treatment for Mental Health Professionals

Eileen P. Ryan, D.O. is a board certified general, child and adolescent, and forensic psychiatrist. She is an attending psychiatrist at the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents in Staunton, Virginia and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia where she is Assistant Director of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Virginia and Medical Director of the Institute of Law,Psychiatry & Public Policy where she performs forensic evaluations. She also evaluates and treats adolescents at a juvenile detention center. John A. Hunter, Ph.D. has over 50 publications on juvenile sexual offending and/or sexual trauma. He is the Military Sexual Trauma Program Coordinator for the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System in New Orleans, and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane University School of Medicine.Daniel C. Murrie, Ph.D. is Director of Psychology at the University of Virginia's Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy, and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He performs forensic evaluations, trains clinicians in forensic mental health assessment, and has authored over 40 publications on forensic evaluation, risk assessment, juvenile justice, and relatedissues.