Hardeberg Bach Maria, Demuth Carolin
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark , Odense , Denmark.
Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University , Aalborg , Denmark.
J Child Sex Abus. 2019 Oct;28(7):799-818. doi: 10.1080/10538712.2019.1592273. Epub 2019 Mar 25.
The need for professionals working with people who have committed sexual offenses is increasingly recognized. Still, relatively little is known about the personal impact of work with this population. Most research in the field has aimed to determine treatment providers' level of work-related stress and hence focused on negative aspects of experience. Moreover, most of these studies have been conducted with questionnaires and yielded mixed results. In order to learn more about individual, contextual and dynamic aspects of therapists' personal experiences with these clients, we suggest to drawing from in-depth interview studies and Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). In the present study, four therapists working in Norway were interviewed. Surprisingly, the participants described their work as rewarding, despite the challenges they encountered. In fact, they considered their work to be rewarding precisely because of its challenging nature. The implications of these results for clinical practice and future research will be discussed.
与性犯罪者打交道的专业人员的需求日益得到认可。然而，对于从事这类工作对个人的影响，我们了解得还相对较少。该领域的大多数研究旨在确定治疗提供者的工作压力水平，因此聚焦于经历的负面方面。此外，这些研究大多通过问卷调查进行，结果参差不齐。为了更深入了解治疗师与这些客户的个人经历中的个体、背景和动态方面，我们建议借鉴深入访谈研究和解释现象学分析（IPA）。在本研究中，对挪威的四位治疗师进行了访谈。令人惊讶的是，尽管参与者遇到了挑战，但他们将自己的工作描述为有意义的。事实上，他们认为正是因为工作具有挑战性，所以才是有意义的。将讨论这些结果对临床实践和未来研究的启示。
