The Good Lives Model with Adolescents
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Training Description
The Good Lives Model (GLM) is a strengths-based rehabilitation approach that augments the risk, need, and responsivity principles of effective correctional intervention through its focus on assisting clients to develop and implement meaningful life plans that are incompatible with future offending. While much has been written on the GLM, this 1.5 hour workshop focuses on how the GLM –properly adapted – can be used with adolescents. The workshop closely examines many of its individual tenets (e.g., approach goals, primary goods) and explores how they might apply to programs in whole (implementation), in part (integration), or somewhere in between (“implegration”). Consideration is given to family involvement and how the etiology of problem sexual behavior often results from challenges in attaining goals that are common to all human beings. Finally, this webinar describes a workbook in press for using the GLM with youth who exhibit a wide range of problem behaviors.
Trainer Biography
David Prescott, LCSW, LICSW serves as Director of Professional Development and as a Clinical Director for the Becket Family of Services. Devoted to building healthy lives and safe communities, he has produced 18 book projects and numerous articles and chapters in the areas of assessing and treating sexual violence and trauma. Mr. Prescott is a past president of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. He is also the 2014 recipient of that organization’s Distinguished Contribution award. Previously, he received the Bright Lights award from the National Adolescent Perpetration Network in 2007. He is a Certified Trainer for the International Center for Clinical Excellence and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. He has lectured around the world, including most recently in Namibia, Australia, Japan, Germany, Iceland, Poland, Romania, Canada, and the U.K. He also serves on the editorial boards of three scholarly journals: Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, and Motivational Interviewing: Training, Research, Implementation, and Practice and the Journal of Sexual Aggression.
Learning Objectives
This training is designed to help you:
- Identify basic concepts of the Good Lives Model
- Identify a number of “Good Lives Goals” that can contribute to problem behavior
- Discuss how risk factors can act as barriers to achieving these goals
