title: [Therapy of sex offenders in a psychiatric regional hospital].
abstract: A treatment concept for sexual delinquents convicted and referred to psychiatric treatment in accordance with Section 63 of the German Penal Code, has been worked out at the Psychiatric Hospital in Weissenau. Among the manifold therapeutic measures, group therapy was found to be of paramount importance. The members of the group are described in detail according to their social characteristics, type of offence, psychiatric diagnoses, and major personality traits. Therapies derived from these basis conditions, with the corresponding therapeutic aims, are presented and discussed. At the conclusion of the article, catamnestic data are given of 18 sexual delinquents dismissed since 1978. 14 Patients were dismissed; 2 of these subsequently committed criminal offences, which, however, were not sexual offences; 2 patients each were transferred to another hospital or returned to prison.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005860:Germany, West; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013808:Therapeutic Community
vernacular_title: Therapie von Sexualstraftätern in einem psychiatrischen Landeskrankenhaus.