Falling apart: A process integral to the remodeling of male incest offenders

Scheela, Rochelle A.; Stern, Phyillis Noerager

doi:10.1016/0883-9417(94)90039-6

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“…Remodeling was identi ed by adult male sex offenders in a series of grounded theory studies exploring their perceptions of the process they experienced as they progressed through the SAT program (Scheela, 1992(Scheela, , 1996Scheela & Stern, 1994). The Remodeling Process involved Falling Apart, Taking On, Tearing Out, Rebuilding, Doing the Upkeep, and Moving On.…”

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Sex Offender Treatment: Therapists' Experiences and Perceptions

Scheela

2001

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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The literature portrays work with sex offenders as mentally, physically, and emotionally draining. However, the therapists working in the outpatient Sexual Abuse Treatment (SAT) program at a regional mental health center, while not denying the challenges of this work, describe their experiences as generally positive and rewarding. Because these therapists' experiences seemed to contrast with the literature, a qualitative descriptive study was conducted to examine the SAT therapists' experiences and perceptions. Seventeen SAT therapists were individually interviewed. Interviews were audio taped, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using constant comparative analysis. The therapists in this study indicated that although sexual offender treatment is a stressful area to work in, it offers many rewards and is viewed as "a challenge and privilege." Exploring the positive as well as the negative impacts of working with sex offenders may help identify additional coping strategies or mediating factors for this challenging work.

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Sex Offender Treatment: Therapists' Experiences and Perceptions

Scheela

2001

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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“…They can be healed. In subsequent years, I extended the research to include other o enders and their families with similar results (Scheela, 1992(Scheela, , 1995(Scheela, , 1996(Scheela, , 1999a(Scheela, , 1999bScheela & Stern, 1994).…”

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A Sex Offender Therapist's Story

Scheela

2008

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A therapist who works with sex offenders explains how she got involved in this work, what the treatment program entails, and the difficult homework the offenders must complete to graduate. She also describes the remodeling process offenders experience as they progress through treatment. Most of the offenders she has worked with are remorseful, have been victims themselves, work very hard in treatment, and make remarkable changes to become safe, productive members of society. That is why she has found this work to be some of the most challenging and rewarding work of her life.

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“…However, it is clear both from practice experience and from the literature (Scheela, 1992;Scheela & Stem, 1994) that the process of self-disclosure for these clients tends to be experienced as particularly aversive. It follows, and is also well documented (Garland & Dougher, 1991;Salter, 1988;Tierney & McCabe, 2002), that such demand typically gives rise to considerable resistance.…”

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Therapeutic Engagement Styles of Child Sexual Offenders in a Group Treatment Program: A Grounded Theory Study

Frost

2004

Sex Abuse

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It is widely observed that child sexual offenders typically exhibit considerable reluctance to self-disclose at a level that reflects the full reality of their offending. Their successful engagement in relapse prevention-based programs is therefore problematic. This paper describes a study involving men undertaking a prototypical group treatment program, facing the challenge of revealing to others the details of their offense process. A procedure was developed to access their covert responses at the time of this encounter. From a grounded theory analysis, participants were found to employ various strategies to manage situations where self-disclosure was required. Four distinct disclosure management styles emerged: exploratory, oppositional, evasive, and placatory; the latter three of which appear unfavorable to effective engagement in treatment. As well as suggesting ways of influencing disclosure management style, analysis indicated that it might be possible to predict these different orientations during routine assessment.

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Falling apart: A process integral to the remodeling of male incest offenders

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Sex Offender Treatment: Therapists' Experiences and Perceptions

Sex Offender Treatment: Therapists' Experiences and Perceptions

A Sex Offender Therapist's Story

Therapeutic Engagement Styles of Child Sexual Offenders in a Group Treatment Program: A Grounded Theory Study

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