The purpose of this study is to find out the important therapeutic focuses of the intervention factors and the traumatic factors when the psychotherapists who have experiences to treat children with sexual abuse practiced on the fields and counselling...
The purpose of this study is to find out the important therapeutic focuses of the intervention factors and the traumatic factors when the psychotherapists who have experiences to treat children with sexual abuse practiced on the fields and counselling centers. Whether the therapeutic focuses are changed according to client's age are also an important purpose of this study.
To do this, 160 therapists who have worked over 3 years in the field were evaluating the intervention factors of 57 questions and the traumatic factors of 17 questions consisted of the Likert 7 scales.
The test-retest reliability was from r=.88 to r=.91, the content validity was over r=.88, and the internal consistency was between r=.84 and r=.95. All of them were a satisfied level for the test purpose.
In the area of the intervention factors, 7 factors were attained by the principal component analysis using varimax rotation from the 57 intervention questions without considering the age of client. The names of the 7 factors are the following: (1) The belief to the client's capability, (2) Focusing to the client's positive aspects, (3) Working alliance, (4) Raising the client's self-esteem, (5) The implicit lessons, (6) Creative thinking, (7) Resolving the repressed feelings.
By analyzing the scores of the 57 questions to the clients under 13 ages, from that it obtained 7 factors. The names of the factors are: (1) Recovering the self-esteem, (2) Alliance with rapport, (3) Recovering the press, (4) Self assertion and raising the self efficacy, (5) Control of the internal conflicts, (6) Inducing the emotional feelings, (7) Confrontation and insights. However, in the case of over the age 13, there were 6 factors in the same questions. Obtaining factors are the followings; (1) Raising the self efficacy, (2) Handling the negative feelings, (3) Handling the internal conflicts, (4) Alliance with rapport and self acceptance, (5) Integration of self, (6) Confrontation and catharsis.
The key intervention factors of the treatment are a little different to the client's age. In the case of client under age 13, therapist focused on the recovering of self-esteem and the alliance with rapport. However, the obtaining traumatic factors and the composition of the items were same regardless of client's age. The obtained factors were, (1) Exploration of the mood changes after the posttraumatic stress. (2) Management to the stress with connecting the trauma, and (3) Confronting the trauma.
These results supported that the important therapeutic factors are very similar between therapists who worked in Korea or America. It needs future studies to determine whether the results were because of subjects bias or the short term therapy sessions usually found in Korea.
There were also limitations to generalize these results because the subjects of this study totaled only 160. It was also needed to compare carefully the differences of the therapeutic focus which have a different academic background. For example psychology and medical psychology because the subject's background before attending this study was child studies.