Co-operative during assessment process. Resistant to the assessment process. Have many social supports. Is a loner with few social supports. Parents acknowledge their son's abusive behaviour and hold him responsible.
Parents are highly defensive and unwilling to accept facts.
Family reasonably functional. Dysfunctional or multi-problem family. Family supportive of helping process and willing to participate in treatment plan. Family not supportive of treatment and unwilling to participate in treatment plan. History of abuse of any family member - particularly sexual.