Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatment of Sexual Offenders with Developmental Disorder / 신경정신의학

The issues related to the sexuality of the people with developmental disorders are many because a low level of intellectual function and sociality do not equate to a low level of sexual curiosity and sexual desire. This study aimed to review the evaluation and treatment through a forensic psychiatric evaluation case of sexual offenders with developmental disorders. An assessment of sex offenders with developmental disorders should be comprehensive. The risk of recidivism, cognitive distortion about sex, impulsivity, and comorbid psychiatric disorders should be included. Some therapeutic programs have been developed, and they exhibited the effect through the decreased rate of recurrence of sexual offenses. Therefore, it is necessary to pay more attention to the development of therapeutic programs of sexual offenders with developmental disorder.

Cognitive Function, Emotional and Behavioral Problems, and Temperament of Premature Children

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to compare preterm, neurodevelopmentally disordered and healthy full-term children. METHODS: We enrolled 47 children who were born preterm, 40 neurodevelopmentally disordered children, and 80 healthy children as control participants, in order to assess the cognitive functioning and the risk of behavioral problems at the age of 5. Children were assessed using the Korean Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-4th edition (K-WPPSI-IV), the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), and the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI). RESULTS: The mean K-WPPSI-IV score of the preterm group was 87.19±17.36, which was significantly higher than that of the neurodevelopmental disorder group (69.98±28.63; p < 0.001) but lower than that of the control group (107.74±14.21; p < 0.001). The cumulative CBCL scores of the preterm children were not significantly different from those of the control group. Additionally, the TCI scores for reward dependence of the preterm children were higher than those of the control group. CONCLUSION: The cognitive performance of preterm infants was lower than that of healthy full-term infants at the age of 5, and there was an association between slower growth and decreased cognitive ability.