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Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment
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What Happens in Therapy with Sexual Offenders? A Model of Process Research

Friedemann Pfäfflin

Department of Forensic Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Germany

Mechthild Böhmer

Department of Forensic Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Germany

Stephanie Cornehl

Department of Forensic Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Germany

Erhard Mergenthaler

Department of Informatics in Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Germany

This paper presents two studies (one single case and one comparative study) examining change processes within individual therapy sessions as well as during the course of treatment. The Therapeutic Cycle Model (TCM), developed for general psychotherapy to objectify change events in the course of psychotherapies, is applied to transcribed tape recordings of therapy sessions with sexual offenders. The TCM focuses on emotional experience and cognitive mastery and uses computer assisted text analysis. In addition to the TCM approach clinical ratings are used as independent criteria. The predicted relationship between the phases of the TCM and scores on the respective scales of the clinical ratings were supported.

Key Words: therapeutic process research • sex offenders.

Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, Vol. 17, No. 2, 141-151 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/107906320501700205
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