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Peer Counseling Strategies: Facilitating Self‐Disclosure Among Sexually Victimized Juvenile Offenders
Author(s) -
BRAN JAMES M.,
LARSON BILLIE,
DOGGETT MURRAY
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of addictions and offender counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.247
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2161-1874
pISSN - 1055-3835
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1874.1991.tb00074.x
Subject(s) - psychology , denial , psychological intervention , intervention (counseling) , juvenile , clinical psychology , group cohesiveness , juvenile delinquency , interpersonal communication , child sexual abuse , peer group , sexual abuse , developmental psychology , social psychology , poison control , suicide prevention , psychiatry , psychotherapist , medicine , genetics , biology , environmental health
The purpose of this study was to investigate the childhood sexual victimizations reported among juvenile offenders and determine the intervention strategies considered most influential in facilitating the self‐disclosure of those assaults. The results suggest significantly large numbers of adolescent males entering the juvenile justice system have been sexually victimized and clinicians might best reduce male victim denial with peer interventions which facilitate group cohesiveness, interpersonal support and hope, unconditional acceptance, and the altruistic helping of others. These findings are discussed in relation to the need for developing humanistic peer group intervention strategies within juvenile correctional facilities.