A NEATS Analysis of Children with Sexual Behavior Issues & Their Families

By Jane Gilgun

Children show many different kinds of sexual behaviors. These behaviors range from developmentally appropriate to exploitive and aggressive acts that harm others, almost always other children. In this article, I discuss the varieties of children's sexual behaviors. This article provides information that will help parents and professionals in helpful ways to children's sexual behaviors.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jane Gilgun
• Release date: Jun 5, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458140654

Jane Gilgun

I like to laugh. I like witty people. When I'm not writing, riding my horses, or working in my garden, I'm a professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. I write children's books, poetry, books on children with special needs, and books on many other topics based on research I have done for many years. I also comment on public events. My writings are available on Amazon Kindle, iBooks, smashwords.com, scribd.com, createspace, and many other ebooksellers.

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Children show many different kinds of sexual behaviors. These behaviors range from developmentally appropriate to exploitive and aggressive acts that harm others, almost always other children. In this article, I discuss the varieties of children’s sexual behaviors. This article provides information that will help parents and professionals make informed decisions about how to respond to children’s sexual behaviors.

About the Author

Jane F. Gilgun, Ph.D., LICSW, is a professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. She does research on children and families with a variety of developmental issues, on the meanings of violence to perpetrators, the development of violent behaviors, and on how persons overcome adversities.

A NEATS Analysis of Children

with Sexual Behavior Issues & Their Families

Children have many different kinds of sexual behaviors. These behaviors range from developmentally appropriate to exploitive and aggressive acts that harm others, almost always other children. In this article, I discuss the varieties of children’s sexual behaviors using three kinds of assessments. They are the Gil and Johnson typology, the NEATS, which is a child and family assessment that I developed, and ideas from research on resilience and risk.

Through the use of these assessments, I build understandings of the complex issues involved in children’s sexual development. I also provide guidelines for how adults can respond so that children develop to their optimal potential. Too often parents and other