OUR COMMUNITY TEAM
FOR CHILD PROTECTION & VICTIM ADVOCATES-Shasta Treatment Associates offers a "Victim-Centered" treatment program where even within the sex offender program, it is the needs of the victim (child, family, community and society) that are the primary focus. Not only do sex offenders have the requirement of providing a clarification and a RESTITUTION SCRAPBOOK for their specific victims, but innovative and sensitive treatment techniques through the Sensory-Based Treatment approach guide the individualized therapy for victims of all ages, responding to the intricacies of trauma recovery needs involved in the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder diagnosis. Most importantly, this sensory-based treatment approach requires a process of collection of family and community support for the victims, which allows the ultimate opportunity for sexual victims to move from a position of shame to one of CELEBRATION of treatment success.
FOR THE COURT-Shasta Treatment Associates cond ucts sex offender evaluations that can provide amenability information through risk assessments that determine which sex offenders should be afforded the privilege of treatment in the community.. OUR TEAM TOOLS:
* Sexual Victim Trauma Assessments
* Sensory Based Treatment
* Play Therapy,Art Therapy
* Restitution Therapy
* Resources Referrals
* EMDR
* Offender Aftercare & Reunification Decisions
* Expert Witness Testimony
* Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
* Interagency Participation and Consultation
* Polygraph Examination Implementation
* Behavior Modification
* Family Therapy
RESTITUTION THERAPY -
THE ULTIMATE IN DEVELOPING VICTIM EMPATHY FOR SEX OFFENDERS,THE ULTIMATE IN REPAIRING DAMAGE TO SEXUAL VICTIMS
This type of Restitution Therapy has been developed by Jan Hindman based upon two needs. First,traditional,but well intentioned,Victim Empathy exercises for offenders can be an erotic process since the intensity of victim suffering seems to fuel the arousal of sex offenders. For many offenders there appears to be an attraction toward power and control over victims and,therefore,generic Victim Empathy treatment (poem reading,victim panels,exposure to incest books) can be counterproductive,if not arousing and erotic.
Secondly,research pertaining to the suffering of victims (Hindman,et.al) indicates that a mobile,vague or moving memory of the sexual abuse causes trauma and suffering over time. As the brain's ability to perceive and retrieve memories of past events change,the traumatic experience tends to change. Guilt and responsibility are visiting ghosts of the moving memory.