Modification of undesirable sexual behavior in hospitalized sexual offenders within the framework of a comprehensive cognitive-behavior therapy program. I
Procházka, J.
Ceskoslovenska Psychiatrie 87(3-4): 180-184
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0069-2336 PMID: 1822420 Document Number: 385760
A comprehensively conceived behaviourally oriented therapeutic programme of influencing undesirable sexual behaviour with creation of socially acceptable patterns of sexual behaviour, using in addition to group, regime and sociotherapeutic methods and individual behavioural techniques, (frequently under phallographic control, described in the paper), appears to be most effective in the framework of institutional treatment as regards rate of relapses and economic effectiveness. This is confirmed by ten years of experience with this therapeutic approach at the sexuological department of the psychiatric sanatorium (comparable with results of similar departments abroad), achieved despite difficulties as regards personnel and shortage of professional information. The relapse rate of sexual delinquency during the ten-year investigation, assessed by available methods, was only 9% of all treated subjects.