The impact of personal construct and psychodynamic group work on the psychosocial functioning of offender adolescents was evaluated. The repeated measures design involved 3 data collections. Data from 102 participants included measures of 5 pairs of maturational processes and 5 psychological states.
The Impact of Risk Factors on the Treatment of Adolescent Sex Offenders
โ Scribed by Sharon M. Kelley; Kathy Lewis; Janet Sigal
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 954 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1055-3835
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โฆ Synopsis
The authors investigated the impact that 5 selected risk factors have on the treatment outcome of adolescent male sex offenders. The results indicated that the greatest risk factor among sex offenders was having a mother who had a substance abuse problem.
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