ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview, not only of our developing model of juvenile sexual risk assessment, but also of our thinking about the youth with whom we work and our approach to the work. The sexual risk assessment process for both juveniles and adults is in flux, again in an evolutionary manner rather than as the result of wholesale or sudden change. The Assessment Intervention Move (AIM-2) offers a comprehensive model of assessment and exemplifies not simply the inclusion of a strengths assessment but also the importance of a step-wise process that integrates the entire assessment process and yields clear direction for treatment and case management. Indeed, discussions about the nature, role and assessment of protective factors and their effects have become increasingly common in the literature of both juvenile and adult risk assessment. Contemporary risk assessment is not only about evaluating the presence and influence of risk factors, or those things that increase the possibility of harmful behaviour.
