The Professional Carers' Group: Supporting group work for young sexual abusers

Griffin, Susanne; Williams, Martin H.; Hawkes, Colin; Vizard, Eileen

doi:10.1016/s0145-2134(97)00023-9

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“…Pragmatic and safeguarding considerations are also essential in providing CBT (and other therapies) whether individual or group based, in a community context. Clinical experience has shown the value of providing concurrent support work for carers of the children in treatment as these adults will be expected to reinforce the new thinking proposed in the CBT sessions and to deal with any acting out behaviors during treatment (Griffin, Williams, Hawkes, & Vizard, 1997). A structured and holistic approach to CBT in a community‐based setting has also emphasized the need for trained staff to have carers actively involved in the treatment process and qualified supervisors to support delivery of the manualized program (McCrory et al., 2011).…”

Section: Types Of Treatment Available For Juvenile Perpetrators Of Csamentioning

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Practitioner Review: The victims and juvenile perpetrators of child sexual abuse – assessment and intervention

Vizard

2013

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Victims and perpetrators of CSA present challenges and opportunities for professional intervention. Their complex presentations mean that their needs should be met by highly trained staff. However, their youth and developmental immaturity also give an opportunity to nip problem symptoms and behaviors in the bud. The key is in the earliest possible intervention with both groups. Future research should focus on long-term adult outcomes for both child victims and children who perpetrate CSA. Adult outcomes of treated children could identify problems and/or strengths in parenting the next generation and also the persistence and/or desistence of sexualized or abusive behavior.

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Section: Types Of Treatment Available For Juvenile Perpetrators Of Csamentioning

confidence: 99%

Practitioner Review: The victims and juvenile perpetrators of child sexual abuse – assessment and intervention

Vizard

2013

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…While most SOST groups utilize cognitive behavioral principles, there are many published articles that offer alternative approaches and techniques, which may or may not be congruent with traditional CBT. These include Adlerian (Johnson & Lokey, 2007; Newbauer & Blanks, 2001), behavioral (Jennings & Deming, 2013), humanistic (Bauman & Kopp, 2006), psychoanalytic (Ganzarain & Buchele, 1990; Romero & Williams, 1983), psychodynamic (Lothstein, 2001), psychodrama (Schwartz & Bergman, 1997), Rational Emotive Therapy (Ellis, 1961; Whitford & Parr, 1995), marathon groups (Brancale et al, 1972; Frey, 1987; Schwartz & Cellini, 1988), multifamily group (Griffin, Williams, Hawkes, & Vizard, 1997; Nahum & Brewer, 2004; Walker, 2000), self-help (Schwartz & Cellini, 1988), role-play (Clark & Liddle, 2012; Daniels, 2005; Hudson, 2005), use of videotaped sessions (Anderson, 1969; Brancale et al, 1972; Marcus, 1971; Schwartz & Cellini, 1988), and female sex offender groups (Barnett, Corder, & Jehu, 1990; Lindquist, 2001).…”

Section: Group Practice Guidelines and Alternative Group Approaches To Cbtmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Articles specific to adolescent SOST groups are also available, including Haines, Herrman, Baker, and Graber (1986); Whitford and Parr (1995); Mamabolo (1996); Griffin et al (1997); O’Reilly et al (2001); Etgar and Prager (2009); Sribney and Reddon (2009); Newbauer and Blanks (2001); Nahum and Brewer (2004); Carpentier, Silovsky, and Chaffin (2006); and Halse et al (2012).…”

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Review of the Empirical and Clinical Support for Group Therapy Specific to Sexual Abusers

Jennings

Deming²

2015

Sex Abuse

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This review compiles 48 empirical studies and 55 clinical/practice articles specific to group therapy with sex offenders. Historically, group therapy has always been the predominant modality in sex offender-specific treatment. In the first decades of the field, treatment applied a psychoanalytic methodology that, although not empirically supported, fully appreciated the primary therapeutic importance of the group modality. Conversely, since the early 1980s, treatment has applied a cognitive behavioral method, but the field has largely neglected the therapeutic value of interpersonal group dynamics. The past decade has seen a growing re-appreciation of general therapeutic processes and more holistic approaches in sex offender treatment, and there is an emerging body of empirical research which, although often indirectly concerned with group, has yielded three definitive conclusions. First, the therapeutic qualities of the group therapist-specifically warmth, empathy, encouragement, and guidance-can strongly affect outcomes. Second, the quality of group cohesion can profoundly affect the effectiveness of treatment. Third, confrontational approaches in group therapy are ineffective, if not counter-therapeutic, and overwhelmingly rated as not helpful by sex offenders themselves. Additional conclusions are less strongly supported, but include compelling evidence that sex offenders generally prefer group therapy over individual therapy, that group therapy appears equally effective to individual therapy, and that mixing or separating groups by offense type is not important to therapeutic climate. Other group techniques and approaches specific to sexual abuse treatment are also summarized.

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“…The New South Wales Interagency Guidelines have provided the context in which this can be achieved. Griffin et al . (1997) writing about the need for interagency cooperation in setting up a group program for young sexual abusers calls for a ‘ coordinated professional strategy designed to supervise and support both the referred individual and the referring system ’.…”

Section: Professional Interventionmentioning

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'But she didn't say no': an exploration of sibling sexual abuse

Veigh¹

2003

Australian Social Work

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Sibling sexual abuse often causes polarities of view in professional and client groups alike. These views range from seeing it as benign to damaging. For professionals new to the field this paper gives an overview of the discussion that sibling sexual abuse is as traumatic as parental sexual abuse, and has lasting impact on its victims. Recognising the particular dynamics of sibling sexual abuse and effect on victims raises the challenge of case management in families where it occurs. This paper will explore this challenge within the New South Wales context.

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The Professional Carers' Group: Supporting group work for young sexual abusers

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Practitioner Review: The victims and juvenile perpetrators of child sexual abuse – assessment and intervention

Practitioner Review: The victims and juvenile perpetrators of child sexual abuse – assessment and intervention

Review of the Empirical and Clinical Support for Group Therapy Specific to Sexual Abusers

'But she didn't say no': an exploration of sibling sexual abuse

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