Element |
Therapists |
Clients |
Critic |
(1) Interpretation |
As an offender. As strange and different, as distorted and dangerous, as a manipulator. As a behaving being. |
Al a person with an inner, a personal biography, able to act, as a whole and as an individual. | Too reductionistic. Two visions on the human, one for the clients, another for the therapists. |
(2) Aims |
Prevention of recidivism, thus changing the delict behavior; becoming responsible. | No data. Supposedly: only to survive. |
Too limited, too much concentrated on behavior, not therapeutic. |
(3) Ways of acting |
Narrative coercion and other forms of coercion and
control. Conditions beforehand, keeping distance, a group, a delict scenario, an offense chain, sexual script, avoiding the funnel, lots of orders, normalizing fantasies; sometimes medicines. |
Clients feel to be treated as toddlers and complain about
endless repetition.
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Too much coercion, too much concentrated on outward behavior; no attention for the inner or psyche and the underlying problems. |
(4) Outcome |
Recidivism? This is low. Behavior changed? Questionnaires, after-care group. Stimuli? Triggers or desinhibitors? Contacts? |
Clients learn to pretend. 'No stroke changed' Obsessions and depressions still alive. |
Not aimed: the outcome is far from therapeutic.
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(5) Feeling afterwards |
No data. Impression: difficult!' 'but also pride on the own expertise. Negative feelings of the clients: this is part of the method, thus good. |
Extremely negative. Too awful for words. Depressed,
humiliated, traumatized, deprived of
self-confidence. This is a cruel method. |
Take the feelings afterward of the clients more for serious. |
(6) Insights |
One keeps staying within the chosen model and beliefs in it. | I pretend to agree with them: the only way to be released. | This does not work, at least not therapeutically. |
(7) Way to improve |
None. No development, no self-critic. Ivory tower. Ideology. |
Let them listen to us and respect us. | Have a critical view on the model and the vision behind it. Start development of methodology. |
In summary |
A very one-sided model full of use of narrative and other coercion, that impresses as an ideology, an in itself closed system. |
A disaster! |
Become self-critical; review the model. |