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Treatment and management of child pornography use
1Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, uOttawa Institute of Mental Health Research, 1145 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 7K4, Canada.
Insights
Understanding child pornography users is crucial for effective management. This review details offender types, motivations, and clinical strategies for assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
Area of Science:
- Forensic Psychology
- Cyberpsychology
- Criminology
Background:
- Digital technologies provide accessible child pornography (CP).
- Understanding CP users is vital for clinicians.
- CP involves real children or computer-generated imagery.
Purpose of the Study:
- To differentiate CP user motivations.
- To categorize CP offender types.
- To outline assessment, diagnosis, and management.
Main Methods:
- Literature review.
- Synthesis of existing research on CP offenders.
- Clinical case examples (implied).
Main Results:
- Distinct motivations for CP use identified.
- Classifications of CP offender types presented.
- Overview of current clinical approaches provided.
Conclusions:
- Further research is needed for improved assessment and management.
- Clinicians require specialized knowledge of CP offenders.
- Recommendations for future clinical practice and research offered.
Abstract:
Advances in Internet and other digital technologies have created ready and affordable access to pornography involving real children or computer-generated images of children. To better understand and manage child pornography users, clinicians must acquaint themselves with the characteristics and behaviors of these offenders. This article distinguishes motivations to use child pornography and different types of child pornography offenders and provides a brief overview of the assessment, diagnosis, and management options available. The authors conclude with recommendations on future directions in the assessment, diagnosis, and management of child pornography offenders.