Youth Sexual Exploitation on the Internet: DSM-IV Diagnoses and Gender Differences in Co-occurring Mental Health Issues
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In terms of relationship to the victim, perpetrators included family members, educators, religious individuals, peers, neighbors, trusted individuals, and people met online as groomers and cyber-bullies.
“In terms of the relationship to the victim, perpetrators included family members [23,24], educators [23,24], religious individuals [23,24], peers [23,24], neighbors [23,24], trusted individuals [23,24], and people met online as groomers [4,17,25] and cyber-bullies [13,26].”
From Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Children and Adolescents with Disabilities: A Systematic Review (2024) · cites this paper as [13]
The consequences of OCSEA can be permanent.
“In terms of the duration and start of OCSEA, studies suggest that the time gap between an abuser initiating online contact and a child responding can be as brief as a few minutes [19], but the consequences can be permanent [13].”
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Children and adolescents with disabilities can face an elevated risk of experiencing OCSEA, primarily because they may lack the ability to comprehend what is happening and may also have limited communication skills to articulate their distress or concerns.
“Children and adolescents with disabilities can face an elevated risk of experiencing OCSEA, primarily because they may lack the ability to comprehend what is happening and may also have limited communication skills to articulate their distress or concerns [13].”
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Types of perpetrators based on types of offences included grooming, cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking, sextortion, or revenge porn.
“In the case of the types of the perpetrators based on the types of offences, the following categories were identified: grooming [4,19,27], cyber-bullying [13], cyber-stalking [13], sextortion [13], or revenge porn [13].”
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Perpetrators employ various techniques, such as manipulation, cyberstalking, coercion, providing gifts to victims, cyber-threats, cyber-harassment, sexting, sextortion, grooming, and digital alteration of images.
“In addition, the studies analyzed reveal that perpetrators employ various techniques, such as manipulation [23,27], cyberstalking [13], coercion [27], providing gifts to victims [23], cyber-threats [13,21,23,26,27], cyber-harassment [13,26], sexting [13,21], sextortion [13], grooming [4,13,19,27], and digital alteration of images [21].”
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The unsupervised use of technology is specifically highlighted as a significant risk factor that demands attention and intervention balanced with the recognition of a children's rights perspective.
“The unsupervised use of technology is specifically highlighted as a significant risk factor that demands attention and intervention balanced with the recognition of a children's rights perspective [13].”
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Abusers in the reviewed studies were mainly groomers, sexual predators, cyber-bullies, cyber-stalkers, and sextortionists.
“In addition, it was identified that abusers in the studies [3,13,19,27] were mainly groomers, sexual predators, cyber-bullies, cyber-stalkers, and sextortionists.”
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Low self-esteem and difficulties in forming relationships intensify the vulnerability of children and adolescents with disabilities to online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA).
“low self-esteem and difficulties in forming relationships emerge as noteworthy aspects, intensifying the vulnerability of children and adolescents with disabilities to OCSEA [13].”
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- Authors
- Wells, M., & Mitchell, K. J.
- Affiliations
- University of New Hampshire (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wells, Melissa
- Mitchell, Kimberly J.
- Venue
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal
- Published
- 2007-05-26
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 235-260
- ISSN
- 0738-0151 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2797
- OpenAlex
- W2011524102
- Cited by
- 64
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 2.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal (publishedVersion)
- University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Keywords
- online sexual exploitation, youth, post-traumatic stress disorder, gender differences, co-occurring mental health problems, DSM-IV diagnosis, clinical evaluation, child and adolescent mental health services
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