Adolescence and The Law – Current Challenges Offices are in Dallas, Preston Hollow/Medical City, Texas. (214) 431-2032 The new issue of the Association for Psychological Science’s journal *Current Directions in Psychological Science* is a special issue devoted to “The Teenage...

There is little question that sexual arousal in children is a powerful predictor of sexual recidivism among adult abusers (Hanson & Bussiere, 1998; Hanson & Morton-Bourgon, 2004). However, the clarity appears to end there for risk classification purposes. Arousal to...

Persons engaged in addictive and defiant behavior tend to treat parents, family, and others as objects. Many of my teen and adult clients struggle to understand how others might feel in different situations. The main issue is that my clients...

Make no mistake: pornography is a destroyer. It will destroy your ability to be rightly and redemptively related to your spouse, to your children, to yourself, and to God himself. Moreover, overcoming pornography addiction will not happen by accident. Here...

Sexting Laws –‘Sexting ’ and other teen auto-pornography are becoming a widespread phenomenon. Perhaps 20% of teenagers admit to producing nude or semi-nude pictures of themselves, and an ever-greater proportion, perhaps as many as 50%, have illegally received such pictures...