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Treatment Intervention |
Alpha offers a 90-120 day remedial option for sex offenders
who are not adequately progressing in their outpatient
treatment programs. This is a therapeutic alternative to
revocation for those individuals who have not sexually re-offended,
but who are in danger of being adversely discharged from
outpatient programming.
Discharged Due to:
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Failure to fully
disclose information about current conviction and deviant
sexual practices. |
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Failure to adequately
participate in treatment process. |
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Poor attendance. |
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Noncompliance with
assignments and restrictions. |
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Monitoring
difficulties in the community |
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Unsupervised/unauthorized contact
with victims or minors. |
Objectives Include:
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Increased amenability for
outpatient treatment. |
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Increased disclosure about
offense and deviant sexual arousal patterns. |
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Increased participation in
treatment groups. |
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Improved interpersonal skills. |
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Development of
cognitive-behavioral reconditioning techniques to decrease
deviant arousal patterns. |
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Reduced cognitive rigidity and
modified belief system. |
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Completion of individualized
goals as formulated with the referral source. |
Methods:
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Participation in treatment
program milieu. |
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Group therapy participation. |
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Written assignments. |
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Behavioral assignments. |
Optional
Services:
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Polygraphy |
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Plethysmography |
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Psychiatric or psychological
evaluation. |
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