Held back by limited experience, training, and therapeutic confidence: self-perceptions of Czech mental health professionals about addressing paraphilic-related concerns
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11240/25:10465795
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14681994.2023.2232318" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14681994.2023.2232318</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14681994.2023.2232318" target="_blank" >10.1080/14681994.2023.2232318</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Held back by limited experience, training, and therapeutic confidence: self-perceptions of Czech mental health professionals about addressing paraphilic-related concerns
Original language description
A body of literature shows that a considerable proportion of mental health and social work professionals who are approached by help-seeking people with paraphilic interests find themselves unprepared to respond to these individuals adequately. In the Czech Republic, the professionals’ self-perceptions about addressing various paraphilic-related themes and concerns remain largely unexplored. The objective of the present study was to fill this knowledge gap by conducting an anonymous online survey among mental health and social work practitioners expected to have professional experience with help-seeking people presenting with paraphilic interests and related themes. The focus of the study was on two broad areas of paraphilic interest: attraction to minors and sexual non-consent and violence against adults. The survey results in 61 practitioners suggested limited self-perceived capacity to address paraphilic-related interests and concerns, which involved navigating relationships with significant others, mitigating anxiety and depression, and enhancing intimate functioning, rather than handling paraphilic interests per se. Insufficient paraphilic-related professional experience and training were named among the major self-perceived obstacles to efficient help provision. Through identification of current gaps in professionals’ engagement with this stigmatized, hard-to-reach, at-risk population we hope to foster the development of competent, client-oriented, and compassionate counselling and treatment services in the Czech Republic.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sexual and Relationship Therapy
ISSN
1468-1994
e-ISSN
1468-1749
Volume of the periodical
40
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
5-31
UT code for WoS article
001029384700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85165124252