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Adult
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A comprehensive discussion of all treatment goals
aimed at achieving the overall goal of reducing or eliminating
sexually inappropriate behavior is not practical in a description of
this scope. In response to the need, however, to document these
other important program goals, the following outline is provided. It
is by no means an all-inclusive listing, but is provided primarily
to identify some major problem areas which are addressed at Alpha.
General Outcome Goals:
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Reduce serious crime and
victimization of innocent people. |
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Reduce the probability of sexual
misconduct recurring. |
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Reduce reliance on public
assistance. |
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Provide services at a cost
to the taxpayers that are less than the cost of incarceration. |
Client
Intra-Psychic (Psychological) Goals:
A. Behavioral
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Encourage client to admit to and
take full responsibility for offense(s). |
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Address with client possible
compulsive characteristics of offense(s) and sexual behavior. |
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Increase the likelihood of
conscientious, responsible appropriate sexual behavior. |
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Address and alter behavioral
events leading to acting out such as masturbating to deviant
fantasies, identifying potential targets, using violence or
abusively-oriented pornography, etc. |
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Increase client's proficiency at
daily living skills. |
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Increase client's skill level in
interacting socially in friendships and in romantic/sexual, and
other types of relationships. |
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Strengthen client's capability
to control his own behavior through effective ego
intervention. |
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Increase client's overall
capacity to respond honestly and responsibly in all areas of
life. |
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Increase general capacity to
behave in a conscientious and responsible fashion. |
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Extinguish or decrease deviant,
inappropriate, and counterproductive sexual behavior. |
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Extinguish or decrease antisocial
behavior in general. |
B. Affective
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Help client reduce
the connection
between destructive emotive state (anger, need for power) and
sexuality. |
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Increase
the pairing of love,
friendship, and empathy with sexuality. |
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Increase client's capacity to
identify and express feelings appropriately. |
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Resolve client's past and
present emotional trauma through intensive psychotherapy. |
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Reduce client's feelings of
shame, inadequacy, mistrust, and hostility. |
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Increase client's capacity to
experience feelings of genuine remorse, love, happiness,
trust, empathy, etc. |
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Increase client's capacity and
likelihood of healing affective wounds through trusting
relationships with others. |
C. Cognitive
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Challenge client's
distorted and ineffective belief systems and values. |
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Challenge and
confront client's cognitive defense system perpetuating
negative behavior. |
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Educate client
thoroughly in the area of sexuality. |
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Alleviate client's
identity confusion by nurturing positive sexual and personal
identity. |
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Educate client
thoroughly in decision-making skills. |
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Improve client's general
cognitive functioning and problem-solving ability. |
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