Table 3: Juvenile sex offender treatment modules and treatment issues.

 

Treatment Module

Treatment Issue

1. Disclosure of the Committing Offense and Taking Responsibility for Actions

·         Anticipation of the pattern and cycle of abuse

·         Understanding the consequences of sending to sell, victim, community

2. Cognitive Autobiography

·         Identification and remediation of family issues and dysfunctions

3. History of Delinquency, Sexuality, Substance Abuse

·         Resolution of Victimization History of the Offender

·         Understanding the Role of Sexual Arousal

·         Identification of Abuse Pattern

·         Identification of the Pattern and Cycle of Abuse

4. Offense Cycle

·         Identification of Thinking Errors and Cognitive Distortions That Support the Trigger Offending Behaviors

·         Understanding the Role of Sexual Arousal

·         Management of the Addictive Qualities

·         Identification and Interruption of Cycle

·         Development of Internal Mastery and Control

5. Empathy and Restorative Justice

·         Understand the Consequences of Sending to Self, Victim, and Community

·         Identification and Expression of Feeling

·         Development of Prosocial Relationship Skills

·         Development of Empathy

6. Relapse Prevention and Reintegration

·         Management in Addictive Qualities

·         Identification and Interruption of Cycle

·         Development in Internal Mastery and Control

·         Development of Relapse Prevention Strategies

 

Note: National Task Force on Juvenile Sex Offending (NTFJSO, 1993) [33]