Therapy of Pedophilia

There seems to be no therapy of pedophilia. This does not mean that there are no possibilities to help. Therapy can help pseudo-pedophiles - people who make sex with children because they have problems with adults.

Group therapy in pedophile self-help groups is an effective treatment of the "isolated minority syndrome" (Fog 1992).

We have to discuss ethical questions - the aim of a therapy and how to measure their success. This is necessary because many pedophiles do not even want a therapy. That's why they often will be forced to make a therapy - in a situation there even the possibility of a successful therapy is at least questionable.

Therapy for sexual abuse

Therapy for sexually abused children is not the main issue of the PRD. Nonetheless, some links to interesting material which we have found "by the way":

• McElroy & Keck 1995
• Levitt & Pinnell 1995 conlcude that "there is some clinical evidence that abreaction of a traumatic event in adulthood may have a remediative effect. Similar evidence for childhood trauma is lacking. The belief in the healing effect of recalling and reliving a childhood trauma depends on the therapist's orientation."

See also

• TVdiscussion
• Behaviour Therapy
• bib
• "Cognitive Distortion" and Their Therapy
• Isolated Minority Syndrom
• reasonHomo
• stat