WORKING IN GROUPS WITH YOUNG MEN WHO HAVE SEXUALLY ABUSED OTHERS

Groupwork has emerged as the predominant treatment method for those who display sexually aggressive behaviours. In a survey of North American treatment providers by Knopp and colleagues (1992), 98 per cent of programmes identified peer groups as the preferred treatment model in work with adults and adolescents who had sexually abused. In the UK, Allam and Browne (1998) found cognitive based sex-offender groups to be operating in 97 per cent of probation services.