Adolescent Sex Offenders' Rankings of Therapeutic Factors Using the Yalom Card Sort

Intrafamilial Adolescent Sex Offenders' Response to Psychological Treatment

“…In particular, participants found the group therapy component to be most useful. This finding is similar to that of Sribney and Reddon (2008) who found that ASOs benefited from the group experience. Participants stated that the group setting offered them an opportunity to learn from their peers, practice prosocial skills, and lessen their feelings of isolation since disclosure of their offending behaviours.…”

“…Treatment of IASOs needs to be holistic and responsive to the needs of the entire family because it is in the context of the family that offending occurs. Unless clients are asked about their experiences in therapy, it is impossible to know which factors they consider to be most valuable in the therapeutic process (Bremer, 1992;Sribney & Reddon, 2008). The current study reports on the impact of a community-based treatment program (the SafeCare model) from the perspective of the IASOs who received treatment.…”

“…Adolescent treatment programs typically have been based on those developed for adult offenders (Eastman, 2004;Sribney & Reddon, 2008). Developmental issues relevant to the period of adolescence and the influence of the family system have only been considered more recently (Print & Morrison, 2000).…”

“…Finally, Sribney and Reddon (2008) reported on the therapeutic factors that inpatient ASOs engaged in group therapy found most helpful, by examining their responses to the Yalom Card Sort. The results suggested that factors relating to family relationships, universality (that one is not alone), and group cohesiveness were considered most central to ASOs in the therapeutic process.…”

Therapeutic Alliance with Juvenile Sexual Offenders: The Effects of Trauma Symptoms and Attachment Functioning

“…Specific Therapeutic Alliance with Juvenile Sexual Offenders 297 research on youthful sexual offenders and their families reveals the importance of clinician-level factors. Clinicians can build alliances through trust and connection, ensuring safety, evoking empathy, and instilling hope (Sribney & Reddon, 2008;Yoder & Ruch, in press). However, scholarship in this area has largely ignored the effects of client-level factors.…”