David S. Prescott is a licensed clinical social worker who has published 17 books and numerous articles on sexual violence, the good lives model of treatment, motivational interviewing, and trauma-informed care. He has also lectured throughout the world on these subjects.
Dr. Tyffani Dent is a licensed psychologist with more than 15 years’ experience working with adolescents involved with Juvenile Justice and Child Protective Services. Her professional work has focused primarily on the school-to-prison pipeline and issues of mental health in Black and Brown girls and women.
In this episode:
- David Prescott begins with a history of the good lives model (GLM) and its beginnings as a treatment framework for adult sexual abusers.
- He then talks about how the GLM has evolved as a framework for working with a wide variety of offenders, not just sexual abusers.
- Finally, he talks about how the GLM has been modified for work with young men and boys.
- Tyffani Dent joins the conversation to talk about its application with young women and girls.
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Related SSP Materials:
–Becoming Who I Want to Be for Young Men and Young Women, by David S. Prescott, LICSW & Tyffani Dent, PsyD – These workbooks, written using the Good Lives Model (GLM) of rehabilitation, are intended for use with young people (early adolescence into early adulthood) with problem behaviors in a wide range of areas. They can be used in both group and individual counseling modalities.
– The Good Lives Model for Adolescents Who Sexually Harm, edited by Bobbie Print, Foreword by Tony Ward – About the choice of the G-map Treatment Centre in Manchester UK to use the Good Lives Model (GLM) as their treatment framework and how they adapted the model for work with adolescents.
– Applying the Good Lives and Self-Regulation Models to Sex Offender Treatment, A Practical Guide for Clinicians, by Pamela Yates, David Prescott, and Tony Ward – A common sense guide to helping offenders build a lifestyle incompatible with offending. Receive free ATSA workshop DVD!
Trauma-Informed Care
– Trauma-Informed Care, Transforming Treatment for People Who Have Sexually Abused, by Jill Levenson, Gwenda Willis, and David Prescott – A review of the cross-disciplinary research on the impact of early childhood trauma on cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral development and the practical application of this knowledge to case conceptualization and trauma-informed responding.
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