The Sexual Abusive Youth (SAY) Program is for males 12 to 16 years of age. The program uses the Personal Maintenance Program Contract (PMPC), which serves as a road map to living an offense-free lifestyle. In this program, the adolescent’s trigger points, or all the circumstances or events that would cause him to re-offend, are listed and addressed. This list is then given to the doctor, parents’ social worker, therapist, the child himself and anyone who is involved with the child. This creates awareness of any situations that should be avoided with regard to the child.
The contract makes the adolescent aware of what they are doing and offers ways to cope with those situations. The PMPC also includes the following:
- Chapters on their offenses
- Deviant cycle with interventions
- How their cycle affects their life
- Special environmental restrictions
- Positive enhancing activities
- Moral development
- Healthy sexuality
- Any other issues that the child believes is important to provide to others in their support network
Upon admission, the adolescent receives a comprehensive psychosexual evaluation with emphasis on risk factors. Once these are identified and have been prioritized, the master treatment plan is developed. The issues discovered during this phase are then outlined and addressed as various points throughout the treatment program. The therapeutic assignments designed for each level are modified to address each child’s individual risk factors. This includes the use of the Abel Assignment. In addition to the use of the PMPC and the ABEL assessment, the SAY program incorporates the Good Lives Model of treatment.
Average Stay
12-18 months
Principles of the Program
- The child will develop ownership of their actions, beginning with their offending behaviors.
- The adolescent will learn to prevent a relapse.
- The individual will develop a healthy direction in life.
Goals of the Program
- Increase community safety through the use of treatment to significantly reduce the likelihood of re-offending
- Improve the juvenile’s psychosocial and interpersonal functioning
Methodology of the Program
- Cognitive-Behavioral
- Psychotherapeutic Education
- Group Therapy
- Individual Therapy
- Family Therapy
- Psychosexual Assessment to assist with determining specific needs
Sample Schedule
Outcomes of the Program
- Fully disclose all sexual behaviors
- Demonstrate understanding of their cycles of behavior
- Understand their sequences of thoughts, feelings and behaviors
- Take ownership of their behavior
- Understand their thinking errors that lead to inappropriate decisions
- Develop skills to manage and help reduce arousal to deviant sexual fantasies
- Decrease levels of risk and develop plans to manage it
- Identify their own healthy sense of sexuality
- Identify their own developing moral system
- Increase empathy skills
- Improve their own management of other psychiatric symptoms
- Develop and complete their own Personal Maintenance Program Contract
