Long Version
Section 1: An Overview of Sex Offender Treatment for a Non–Clinical Audience
The Basics of Sex Offender–Specific Treatment
2 Hours
TOPIC: INTRODUCTION TO SECTION 1: THE BASICS OF SEX OFFENDER–SPECIFIC TREATMENT
(10 minutes)
Use
Slide #4 and Slide #5: Learning Objectives for Section 1
Refer
participants to the handout: “Terms and Concepts
Related to Sex Offender–Specific Treatment” for definitions
of terms used in this curriculum. This document is included among the
participant materials. By the end of this section of the curriculum, participants will be able to:
- Recognize that the overarching goal of sex offender treatment is community protection. This is accomplished by effectively treating sex offenders to reduce their recidivism risk (rather than providing treatment to reduce offenders’ subjective distress);
- Contrast sex offender–specific treatment with other forms of mental health treatment;
- Identify several sex offender treatment methods and adjunctive interventions that typically comprise sex offender–specific treatment;
- Describe what specialized sex offender assessment is and why it is important in the sex offender–specific treatment process; and
- Describe the general utility of several assessment tools in the sex offender treatment process, including the polygraph, the plethysmograph, and the Abel Assessment of Sexual Interest.