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Welcome to the MEGA website
This website provides some basic information about MEGA an empirically based, state of the art tool for assessing the risk level for coarse sexual improprieties, and/or youth who are sexually abusive sexually abusive behavior of youth, males and females, ages 4-19 years and youth with low intellectual functioning. The website also serves as a source for information about the one day required specialized training needed for administering and implementing MEGA
This training provides certification on how to administer the assessment, as well as how to interpret and apply the MEGA findings.
MEGA specialized training is for those professionals (licensed and non-licensed) who assess, treat and/or supervise sexually abusive youth or youth who are sexually abusive.
Do you work with youth placed in residential care and/or in treatment group homes with problematic sexual misbehaviors and need to assess risk level for sustained coarse sexual improprieties and/or sexually abusive behaviors?
Are you a probation officer or a social worker that works in dependency, or with foster-care, or adoptions, or with juvenile courts that place and/or house youth with problematic sexual misconduct and need to assess risk for sustained coarse sexual improprieties and/or sexually abusive behaviors?
Are you involved in long term care with youth with problematic sexual behaviors and need to assess risk for sustained coarse sexual improprieties and/or sexually abusive behaviors?
Are you a mental health professional involved in cases of sexual abuse with youth with problematic sexual improprieties and need to assess risk for sustained coarse sexual improprieties and/or sexually abusive behaviors?
MEGA is a resourceful risk assessment tool with the following innovative features:
- Provides a comprehensive individualized risk assessment reports for males and females, ages 4-19 years.
- Applicable to youth with low intellectual functioning.
- Provides initial baseline risk level and protective factors for future comparative analysis.
- Demonstrated prognostic utility; it has predictive validity.
- Simultaneously assesses risk level, and protective factors for or youth who are sexually abusive sexually abusive behaviors Able to do comparative analysis; measures changes in risk levels and protective factors over time (i.e., every 6 months).
- Validation studies published in various peer reviewed journals including Journal of Family Violence, Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma, and Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities.
The MEGA validation and cross-validation studies are the largest studies in the field, tested on combined international sample of over 4000 adjudicated and non-adjudicated, sexually abusive youth or youth who are sexually abusive, ages 4-19, males and females and youth with low intellectual functioning. The MEGA research include youth from the United States, Canada, England, and Scotland.
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