Robert Beilke

MultiCare Health System · neurobehavioral medicine

Describes a group treatment intervention program for young sexually abused boys, and examines outcomes of 33 (aged 4–16 yrs) who completed therapy. The treatment approach included a combination of group, individual, parent training, and family therapy. At follow-up, improvements were noted in a number of areas, including overall behavior problems a...

A large-scale, community-based survey was done to assess the frequency of a wide variety of sexual behaviors in normal preadolescent children and to measure the relationship of these behaviors to age, gender, and socioeconomic and family variables. A sample of 880 2- through 12-year-old children screened to exclude those with a history of sexual ab...

Designed study as a conceptual replication of Shaffer, Friedrich, Shurtleff, and Wolf (1985). Intelligence, school achievement, and perceptual motor skill data from 73 children with uncomplicated myelomeningocele were examined to determine their deviation from test norms. The respective impact of shunting and functional motor level was also assesse...

A large-scale, community-based survey was done to assess the frequency of a wide variety of sexual behaviors in normal preadolescent children and to measure the relationship of these behaviors to age, gender, and socioeconomic and family variables. A sample of 880 2-through 12-year-old children screened to exclude those with a history of sexual abu...

We report a brief treatment format for young sexually abused boys that has both diagnostic and therapeutic implications. A general format is outlined, and then a group is described in more detail. Examples from each session are given that illustrate both therapeutic issues and issues related to the effects of sexual abuse on this sample. Implicatio...

A double-blind time-scries design was used to evaluate the effects of dcxtroamphetamine (10 nig and 5 nig/day) on the work behavior, play interaction, and aggressiveness of a 4-year-old boy with Attention Deficit Hypcractivity Disorder and aggressive, oppositional behavior who had not responded sufficiently to behavioral interventions in a day trea...

A sample of 31 boys sexually assaulted in the previous 18 months was compared on the Child Behavior Checklist with 33 boys who had a diagnosis of oppositional or conduct disorder. The boys ranged in age from 3 to 8 years old. The conduct-disordered boys were being seen in outpatient therapy with their parents. The two groups did differ significantl...

The sexually abused child has been described as more fearful, anxious, depressed, and guilty in comparison to normal children. However, these descriptions are largely derived from clinical impressions and little systematic exploration of the nature and extent of behavior problems among these children. The present study investigated the problem beha...

A sample of 85 children, ages 3 to 12, and sexually abused within the previous 24 months, were avaluated with the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). Data relating to the nature of the abuse were also collected. This sample was clearly more deviant behaviorally as measured by the CBCL. Internalizing behavior was related to the frequency of abuse, the...