Ill. Admin. Code tit. 20, § 1905.120 - Responsivity Factors and Special Populations
Treatment providers shall acknowledge the diversity among individuals who sexually abuse others and that responsiveness to sexual abuser-specific treatment can vary as a function of client characteristics such as demographics, language, development, capabilities, functioning and motivation to change.
a) Treatment
providers recognize that not all treatments have been developed or evaluated
with various subpopulations of sexual abusers (e.g., individuals with
intellectual and developmental disabilities, clients with serious mental
illness, those with varied cultures and other demographics). The limitations of
treatments with these populations should be identified prior to initiating
treatment services.
b) Treatment
providers appreciate that treatment for sexual abusers is more effective when
responsivity factors are addressed and recognize the potential for unintended
collateral consequences when services fail to take into account responsivity
factors.
c) Treatment providers
assess and identify responsivity factors, such as comprehension, cognitive
capabilities, adaptive functional level, psychiatric stability, and other
factors that may impact a client's ability to maximally benefit from sexual
abuser-specific treatment.
d)
Treatment providers strive to adjust approaches to interventions and match
clients to appropriate services based on identified responsivity factors in
order to facilitate clients' maximum benefit from services. This includes, for
example, the provision of language interpreters, services for deniers, services
for clients with cognitive or developmental limitations, and culturally
competent programming.
e) Treatment
providers strive to equip themselves with the knowledge and skills necessary to
adequately address clients' responsivity factors and/or special needs by
participating in professional development activities.
f) Treatment providers recognize their own
strengths and limitations with respect to their ability to provide adequately
responsive services to clients and refer clients to qualified providers skilled
in addressing specific responsivity factors, when necessary.
g) Treatment providers understand that, for
some subpopulations of sexual abusers, sexual abuser-specific treatment
services are best provided subsequent to or in concert with other psychiatric,
behavioral or responsivity-oriented interventions. Treatment providers offering
sexual abuser-specific treatment collaborate with the providers of those
services to ensure that sexual abuser-specific services are complementary and
not contraindicated.
h) Treatment
providers providing sexual abuser-specific treatment work closely with a
client's partner, family members and other community support persons who can
facilitate successful treatment outcomes because of their abilities to attend
to a given client's specific responsivity factors.
Notes
Amended at 29 Ill. Reg. 12273, effective July 25, 2005
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