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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: sexual offender in treatment
    sub title: an analysis of the cognitive-affective meaning-making process
  name:
    name part: Johnson, Judy Kay.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 205 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: This qualitative study explored the narratives of 10 incarcerated male sex offenders who had recently completed an 18-month sex offender treatment program in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. An analysis of the data revealed several significant findings: (1) the power of peer group interactions to facilitate the dialectical synthesis of meaning and cognitive-affective transformations, (2) the importance of reconnecting with the emotional dimension of the self as a necessary aspect of empathic reorganization of internal meaning-making functions for sexual offenders, and (3) an understanding of the process of group-guided change that progresses in cyclical stages, modulated by resistance, to facilitate cognitive-affective transformation. This study found that change for these men involved becoming critically aware of the thoughts, emotions, values, and actions that formed their worldview, life choices, and experiences. The learning process was ultimately an integration of the rational and nonrational ways of knowing. The participants expressed a confidence that the transformations experienced were becoming an integral aspect of their emerging identities and perceptual frame of reference. Fundamental to the learning process was resistance to the unfamiliar in response to a cognitive conflict caused by the exchange of contradictory ideas, which led to tension between retaining and relinquishing personal patterns of meaning. Making sense of the contradictions through dialogue with peers resulted in gradual cognitive-affective transformations and, ultimately, identity reconstruction. The theoretical underpinnings of the change process expressed in the narratives are similar to those described by Mezirow's transformational learning theory. However, a comparison of Mezirow's theory to the process described by these participants reveals that the level of transformation desired for sex offenders in a rehabilitation program must include the integration of affective as …
  note: by Judy Kay Johnson.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Educational Human Resource Development".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2001.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-200).
  subject:
    topic: Major educational human resource development
  identifier: 30-11734 UMI
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