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Length of Training: Four Hours
Credit: 4 CE Credit Hours
Cost of training: $120.00
Purchase price includes access to training video and material for 10 days. Participants will be eligible for a Certificate of Completion.
This program is co-sponsored by Safer Society Press and Continuing Excellence, LLC
The Good Lives Model (GLM) has become a popular approach to the treatment of people who sexually abuse; however, substantial variation has been observed in its practical application. This four-hour online training focuses on how programs and therapists can best integrate the GLM into treatment with persons who have sexually abused. It is suitable for treatment providers and program administrators working in prison, civil commitment, and community-based settings who wish to integrate the GLM. Preliminary research suggests that, integrated appropriately, the GLM offers potential for improving outcomes of treatment programs that follow a cognitive-behavioral (CBT) approach and that operate according to the Risk, Need, and Responsivity (RNR) principles. For example, research suggests that the GLM’s focus on engaging clients in the treatment process enhances treatment engagement, an important element of program effectiveness. However, misguided or otherwise poor application of the GLM in practice could increase the very risk treatment is designed to prevent and manage. The presenters have assisted programs around the world (for example, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Norway, North America, Germany, Italy, and Namibia) in integrating the GLM.
This online training provides practitioners and others with information as to how to translate and integrate the GLM into practice in the overall structure, content, and process of sexual offending treatment, and illustrates key assessment and treatment strategies. The training provides an overview of GLM-based assessment and intervention planning and describes the module or phase-based structure of a RNR/CBT treatment program using the model. Lastly, the online training addresses how typical program modules targeting dynamic risk factors such as sexual and general self-regulation can be developed and integrated using a GLM approach.
Topics to be covered include:
1) How the Good Lives Model (GLM) fits with the principles of risk, need, and responsivity
2) The GLM “primary Human Goods” (also known as “common life goals”)
3) The GLM goods most often implicated in offending
4) Obstacles to implementing a good life plan
5) Case formulation and assessment using the GLM
As a result of this training, participants will be better able to:
1) Explain the “Primary Human Goods” of the Good Lives Model (GLM), also known as Common Life Goals
2) Distinguish between Common Life Goals that are important to the client in general, and those goals implicated in their offending specifically
3) Explain four kinds of obstacles that clients have experienced to implementing their Good Life Plan
4) Explain GLM-based assessment and intervention planning
5) Distinguish between integration and implementation of GLM
Four Hours of Training
The training session runs for four hours. The charge is $120. To be eligible for the CE credits, you must watch the training, complete a quiz, and submit an evaluation form. Evaluation Form: If you seek only psychology credits, the evaluation is optional, and you can remain anonymous.
Access to training materials and video will last for 10 days following the payment of the registration fee. All registrants will be eligible for a Certificate of Completion for 4 CE credit hours.
Training registration fees are non-refundable.
Continuing Education Credit Hours
Continuing Excellence, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Continuing Excellence, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Practical Application of the Good Lives Model, Course #5329, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Continuing Excellence LLC as an individual course. Individual courses, not providers, are approved at the course level. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 10/24/2023 – 10/24/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 4 Clinical continuing education credits.
Gwenda M. Willis
Clinical Psychologist, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Gwenda is a Clinical Psychologist with expertise in forensic/correctional psychology research and practice. She joined the School of Psychology at The University of Auckland in 2013. Her research and clinical work focus on strengths-based approaches to psychological assessment and treatment, trauma-informed care and sexual abuse prevention.
Gwen is an Editorial Board member for Sexual Abuse and the Journal of Sexual Aggression (JSA). . Gwen has received numerous awards and accolades for her research, including the 2012 New Zealand Psychological Society Early Career Goddard Award – Applied Psychology. In 2015, Gwen was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship.
David Prescott
Director of Acquisitions and Training, Safer Society Press
A mental health practitioner of 37 years, David Prescott is the Director of Acquisitions and Training for the Safer Society Press. He is the author and editor of 20 books in the areas of understanding and improving services to at-risk clients. He is best known for his work in the areas of understanding, assessing, and treating sexual violence and trauma. Mr. Prescott is the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Contribution award from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers and the 2018 recipient of the National Adolescent Perpetration Network’s C. Henry Kempe Lifetime Achievement award. Mr. Prescott currently trains and lectures around the world.
This program is co-sponsored by Safer Society Press and Continuing Excellence, LLC
Continuing Excellence, LLC
P.O. Box 134, East Middlebury, VT 05740
Tel: (802) 771-4155
Info@ContinuingExcellence.com
www.ContinuingExcellence.com
Additional Information
Audience
This training is for professionals working with people who have experienced complex trauma as well as people who have perpetrated abuse. Professionals who will benefit from this training include social workers, psychologists, clinical counselors, and interested paraprofessionals.
Content Level
Intermediate / Advanced
Disclosure
The presenters have published materials related to the training from which they may benefit financially.