Sexual Offender Assessment and TreatmentSexual Offender Assessment & Treatment Purposes: - Assist an individual to reduce his/her risk of re-offense
- Provide direction in building a healthy lifestyle
- Protect the community
Basic principles: - The assessment and treatment team demands respect for and from the people it serves.
- The team is assertive in maintaining that its role is to assist change, not to punish.
- The team clearly distinguishes between the person and the person’s offensive behavior.
- The team maintains awareness of the harm done by the actions of the people it serves.
- The team embraces the victim’s perspective of the crime and works to enhance victim empathy through assignments and sharing of such by participants in treatment.
- The team sees community safety as one of its key goals.
- The team believes in the containment approach, i.e. close collaboration between the persons providing community supervision, those providing treatment, and the polygraphist.
Assessment process: - Protocol:
- a review of information supplied by the referral source
- an initial interview
- the computerized Sex History Questionnaire – Revised (SHQ-R)
- a session to review SHQ-R results and explain the polygraph
- the polygraph examination
- a session to review polygraph results, to score risk-assessment instruments, and to discuss conclusions and recommendations
- Purpose: to gather information in order to determine the type, extent, and severity of the presenting problem and then be able to recommend the most appropriate intervention
- Fees:
- Initial interview (usually two hours) $162/hour
- Subsequent individual sessions $109/hour
- SHQ-R $50
- Polygraph $220
A complete sexual offender assessment typically costs $800-1000. Fees are adjusted according to income. Treatment: Protocol: Most commonly conducted in weekly counseling groups, each with two professionally trained leaders Provided in individual sessions when a person’s situation warrants Based on principles of cognitive behavioral therapy Supported by involvement of family and friends whenever possible and appropriate Fees:
o Weekly group sessions $82.50/session o Individual sessions $109/hour Early intervention—Sexual Behaviors Intervention Program (SBIP): - Protocol: a series of 12 weekly psycho-educational sessions
- Purpose: to reduce risk of repeated sexually offensive behavior by those who have not yet developed a pattern of such behavior
- Pre-requisites for participation:
o one-time known abusive behavior o absence of pattern of sexual deviance o adequate self-regulation o lifestyle stability o low risk of re-offense o Orientation session $40 o Weekly sessions $42/session Aftercare: - Protocol: monthly group sessions with one team member
- Purpose: to provide support and monitor implementation of the client's personal maintenance plan
- Fee: $55/session
Referrals: - Sources
- Courts
- probation departments
- prosecutors
- Adult Parole Authority
- Department of Job & Family Services, Children’s Services
- Boards of Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities
- Employers
- Professional boards
- Other programs of Behavioral Connections
- Referral sources provide important information regarding the background of the person referred and the reason for the referral.
- The treatment team, with the written permission of clients, works in very close collaboration with referral sources.
Service providers:- A multi-disciplinary team of qualified, licensed counselors.
- The team makes important decisions regarding appropriate recommendations and client progress in the context of team consultation.
- The team encourages probation and parole officers as well as anyone else who has referred a client to participate in team consultations provided the client has given appropriate permission.
If you have any questions regarding Sexual Offender Assessment & Treatment, please contact Clancy Yeager, PCC, LICDC, Program Manager at 419.352.5387. Clancy Yeager, PCC, LICDC is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with a supervisory endorsement and a Licensed Independent Chemical Dependency Counselor. He has been conducting sexual offender assessment and treatment since 1996 and has coordinated the team since 2000. He has participated in many local and national trainings and received training supervision with three different forensic psychologists. In 1999 he joined the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), an international professional organization. He has been a very active clinical member of ATSA and has attended six of its annual conferences. | 
