22-1The Comparison of the Therapeutic Effectiveness in the Relapse Prevention Group Model between Rapists and Child Sexual  Abusers

Roda Chen Chih-Ju Liu Hung-Yu Lin
National Dong Hwa University

The present study investigated whether group intervention had significant therapeutic impacts on rapists and child sexual abusers. This study also explored whether the rapists and the child sexual abusers had di erences in their view of group climate and the therapeutic factors in different phases of the group process.
One hundred and seventy seven sex offenders were assigned to theexperimental group and the control group. Four dimensions were assessed at the pre- and post-treatment phases: cognition, emotion, denial, and interpersonal relationships. All of the experimental group members were evaluated by the Group Climate Questionnaire and Yalom Therapeutic Factors Categories at the second, ninth and the last session.
The results showed that the child sexual abuser group had more positive changes than the rapist group after group intervention. When comparing the therapeutic effectiveness among six different levels of risk groups, the middle risk of child sexual abusers group had the highest improvement. Group engagement had increased continuously along with time. Finally, this study provided further understandings of the group therapeutic factors concerning rapists and child sexual abusers.

Keywords
child sexual abuser, group climate, group therapeutic factor,  rapist, types of sex offender

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