Gene Abel

Gene Gordon Abel
OccupationPsychiatrist[1]
Known forAbel Assessment for Sexual Interest[2]
Diana Screening[3]

Gene Gordon Abel is an American psychiatrist and controversial clinician.[4] He is a couple's counselor and also works with men and boys suspected of sexual deviancy.[4] He is the creator of the Abel Assessment for Sexual Interest (AASI), a sex offender assessment tool[2] that has been considered unreliable by independent studies[5] and inadmissible in court in various jurisdictions.[6][7] He also designed a screening test called the Diana Screen, to be used, e.g., to screen job applicants for deviant sexual tendencies – a test which has been similarly criticized as having dubious scientific value.

  1. ^ Churchman, Deborah (4 October 1988). "Is Child Abuse a Disease? Making a Case for Treating Sex Offenders". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  2. ^ a b Ewing, Charles Patrick (January 2006). "Testing tool in question". Monitor on Psychology. 37 (1): 67. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  3. ^ Micolucci, Vic (27 June 2013). "Test could be missing link in background checks". NBC 4 Jax. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  4. ^ a b O’Reilly, Gary (2004). The Handbook of Clinical Intervention with Young People who Sexually Abuse. Psychology Press.
  5. ^ Fischer, L (July 1999). "Statistical adequacy of the Abel Assessment for Interest in Paraphilias". Sex Abuse. 11 (3): 195–205. doi:10.1177/107906329901100303. PMID 10497779. S2CID 37350800.
  6. ^ United States of America v. Guy Randy White Horse (U.S. District Court, South Dakota Western Division 2001), Text.
  7. ^ Smith, Gillan MacLean (1998). "Testing the Reliability and Validity of the Abel Assessment". Department of Counseling and Special Education. Brigham Young University.