Abstract
The Northside Interagency Project parents' group programme is a psycho-educational support group for parents of adolescents who have committed a sexual offence. In this qualitative study of five programme participants, their self-reported psychological adjustment, self-esteem and perceived social support improved over the course of treatment. From a thematic content analysis of responses to semi-structured interviews conducted before and after the programme and midway through it a conceptual model of the processes and parents' experience in reaction to the disclosure of their sons' sexual offence was developed. The model proposes relationships between parental shock, confusion, searching and questioning, disbelief or minimisation, acceptance, shame, self-blame, guilt, anger and sadness. The model may inform future research and clinical practice with parents of adolescent child sexual abuse perpetrators.
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