H Thames Valley – Sex Offender Groupwork Programme (TV-SOGP)
Programme aims:
- To reduce the risk of future sexual offending by adult male sex offenders
Who is suitable?
Male sex offenders who:
- are convicted of any sexual offence or sexually-motivated offence, including non-contact sexual offences
- are aged 21 or over
- are within the normal IQ range
- are assessed as suitable for the programme in a court ordered report prior to sentence or by the offender manager prior to release on licence
Who is not suitable?
- Female sexual offenders
- Sex offenders with an IQ of less than 80
- Men with severe drug/alcohol misuse behaviour
- Men with current mental health problems
- Men assessed as psychopathic
- Men in total denial of their sexual offending
The programme involves:
- Assessment by psychometric measures for deviancy and to determine which blocks of the programme need to be undertaken
- Structured pre-groupwork to build on an offender’s motivation to follow the programme
The four programme blocks are:
- Foundation – requires full-time attendance for two consecutive weeks
- Victim empathy – requires twice-weekly attendance for four weeks
- Life skills – requires twice-weekly attendance for 10 weeks
- Relapse prevention – requires weekly attendance for 24 weeks
- High risk/high deviancy men complete the whole programme. Low risk/low deviancy men can miss out the Life skills element
Skills block.
- Men who have completed a Prison sex offender treatment programme can go directly to the Relapse Prevention Programme
