| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育心理與諮商研究所碩士班 === 98 === The purpose of this study is to explore how counselors conceptualized sexual abuse cases of boys and male juveniles. Four counselors were interviewed in semi-structural in-depth interviews. The data of case conceptualization processes and contents were analyzed by grounded theory using open coding and axial coding processes.Researcher categorized the finding into three main points. First, the case conceptualization process was a continuous and also a staged one. This process started from gathering background information of client, managing clients’ traumas, and to the end of recovering clients’ concerning issues. The staged work of case conceptualization included four stages, beginning stage, early working stage, middle working stage, and final working stage. Each stage focused on different subjects. Second, the relationship and power struggle between client and related people should be examined during entire process of counseling. Third, counselors’ sex and gender awareness was important for the case conceptualization process.There were two findings at the beginning stage. First, understanding reasons of referral was an important step of starting counseling, since boys and male juveniles would use different means to cover or hide traumas. Second, culture and gender issues were the foundations to understand cases, because males tends to deny their being the victims in order to avoid conflict with masculinity. In addition, the body boundary between males was vague in their culture, therefore, boys and male juveniles might not aware being abused. There were two findings in the early working stage. First, counselors used different ways to develop relationship with male clients than with female clients. Loyalty, brotherhood, masculinity and positive experiences were the ways for developing relationship between counselors and male clients. Second, familiarity and understanding of the developmental tasks was an important part of conceptualization. Social, sex, and intimacy developments would interact and then impact on clients’ traumas. In the final working stage, there were two important issues, which should be focused on. First, the management of traumas included understanding clients’ feelings and behaviors and psychodynamic, and then developing coping strategies. Second, the recovering process started from “a trigger recovering factor” to self-function recovering, and then to relationship recovering.Finally, the study discussed the research findings and proposed several recommendations for clients, counselors, and educators.
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