About the Assessment

MIDSA is a comprehensive assessment designed to facilitate the development of treatment plans and to serve as the basis of assessment-based treatment.

Its coverage of the Association for Treatment of Sexual Abusers assessment goals:

  • Extensive coverage of x goals
  • Moderate coverage of y goals
  • Limited coverage of z goals
  • No coverage of 2 goals

Extensive Coverage
  • Developmental History
  • Nature and quality of past and current relationships
  • Education and employment history
  • Psychosexual development
  • Nature and frequency of sexual practices
  • Paraphilic interests, fantasies, and sexually abusive behaviors
  • Abusive or offense related sexual arousal, interests or preferences
  • Healthy, age appropriate, normative, long-term intimate and sexual relationships
  • Employment, financial, and residential stability
  • Criminal history
  • Sexual deviancy
  • Antisocial orientation
  • Intimacy and relationship difficulties
  • Self-regulation difficulties
Moderate Coverage
  • Developmental History
  • History of sexually abusive behaviors
  • Information about current and/or previous victim(s)
  • Contextual elements of sexually abusive behaviors
  • Level of insight, self disclosure, and denial
  • Appropriate problem solving and emotional management skills
  • Victim-related variables
Limited Coverage
  • Medical and mental health history,
  • Intelligence, cognitive functioning, and level of maturity
  • Insight, understanding, and management of risk factors
No Coverage
  • Prosocial community supports and influences
  • Structure and support that promote maintaining success

It includes 54 reliable and valid scales that have been extensively studied in more than xx publications (see list).

It uses self-report in a manner that has been shown to have greater validity than other forms of data-collecting.

Versions are available for adult males, juvenile males, adult women, and juvenile women.

To learn more about what it covers, go to the About the Clinical Report page.

About the Clinical Report

The clinical report is a .pdf document that is delivered electronically from within the MIDSA, seconds after the user makes the request (see adult male incarcerated offender, juvenile outpatient). The adult version begins with a self-report version of the Structured Risk Assessment (SRA), which structures the report into dynamic risk categories.

Scales include:

  • Lie scales
  • Emotional abuse and acceptance/neglect by important caregivers
  • Sexual scales: child molestation, sexualization, paraphilia, sadism, pornography, offense planning
  • Attitudes supporting sexual aggression: pervasive antisociality, pervasive anger, hypmasculinity,etc

Report narratives include:

  • A timeline of all caregivers during the respondent’s first 18 years, in half-year increments
  • Family, abuse, school, social/romantic, antisocial, and criminal history
  • Lifetime sexual history, including sexual interest and contact with children
  • Alcohol, drug, and pornography use

About the Software

MIDSA is easy-to-use software with an intuitive visual interface:

  • It runs on Windows or Macintosh.
  • Giving the assessment does not require internet, so may be taken into secure areas.
  • Only requesting reports require internet.

About the Logistics of Use

MIDSA is available in two configurations: (a) a single user on a single computer administers the assessment and requests report, and (b) a multiple computer configuration in which the MIDSA on one computer controls the system (including requesting reports, i.e., the purse strings) and MIDSAs on other computers are used only to deliver the assessment (offline).

Price:

  • The software is free and may be installed on as many computers as desired.
  • Prices for reports depend on the version (adult or juvenile), whether all or part of MIDSA is given, and available discounts (see Price List).
  • Trial period: for the first 30 days, up to 10 reports may be requested free of charge.

Giving the MIDSA:

  • Does not require clinicians’ valuable time. It may be given by nonprofessionals.
  • May be taken all at once or in sessions of length determined by the person giving the assessment.
  • Times to complete vary depending on the population and whether all or part of MIDSA is given (see Times)