title: The lived experience of parents of adolescents who have sexually offended: I am a survivor.
abstract: This study aimed to describe the lived experience of parents of adolescents who had sexually offended. The participants (n= 4) were parents and parental figures of adolescents legally adjudicated for sexual offenses and currently involved in sex offender-specific treatment. Using an ethnographic research design guided by the premises of the Trauma Outcome Process, a focus group and individual interviews were conducted with these participants. Content analysis and constant comparison yielded four main themes: the initial reaction, the relationship with the child, "dealing with it," and being a survivor. These results support the development of an individualized intervention to meet the self-identified needs of this population.
authors: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. rowesara@uams.edu
authors: Sara
authors: S
authors: Pierce
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000523:psychology*; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*