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Reading Specialists Offender Treatment Services Offers a Full Range of Adolescent Treatment Services. RSOTS conducts sexuality evaluations on juveniles who have been accused of sexual misconduct to determine if an individual has committed an alleged sexual offense and makes recommendations for treatment and disposition. Evaluations  may be a part of a pre-sentencing investigation, be conducted at the request of an attorney, Probation Department, Children and Youth Services, or District Attorney’s office.
The evaluation is a comprehensive process that consists of the following:
  • A detailed clinical interview, including a developmental history and a clinical assessment of the legitimacy and severity of the presenting sexual behaviors/crimes.
  • An in depth assessment of psychopathy as measured by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.
  • The Beck Depression Inventory
  • Abel Assessment for Sexual Interest
  • The Clinical Polygraph
  • The Defining Issues Test
  • The Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol-II (J-SOAP-II), an assessment of risks with a concomitant estimate of the probability of sexual offense recidivism.
  • MMPI-A
  • Rotter IE/ HS/ Locus of Control
  • WRAT – Wide Range Acheivement Test – 3rd edition
  • Bender Gestalt

Currently, outpatient adolescent services are provided at the Reading and Bethlehem office locations. RSOTS utilizes a basic “cognitive behavioral approach” to both adolescent and adult treatment. This approach is premised on the fact that deviant sexual behaviors are learned through a social conditioning process and sustained through deviant cognitive processes and behaviors that are self-reinforcing.

RSOTS approach is respectfully confrontational, particularly with individuals who are resistant to change and/or fail to comply with treatment recommendations. It also reflects our position that sex offenders have committed a crime and generally do not suffer from depression or other emotional problems.


RSOTS provides treatment, training and consultation services to staff and selected residents of the Northampton County Juvenile Justice Center, located in Easton, Pa.

This innovative program consists of a thirty day diagnostic and evaluation followed by an additional thirty to sixty day regime of individual and group treatment, Vicarious Sensitization , family counseling and psychiatric services as needed.

Consultation is also provided to detention center staff as needed and regularly scheduled training is provided on a variety of subjects concerning treatment and management of the juvenile offenders.


Specialized Foster Care-The “SafeGuards” Program

The SafeGuards program is a unique system of foster care, designed to assist sexually reactive children and adolescents who cannot remain with or return to their legal family.

Referrals to SafeGuards are accepted from residential treatment facilities, juvenile detention centers, traditional foster care placements, or legal families . Our homes are not designed to meet the needs of clients requiring acute inpatient treatment such as restraints or seclusion, but we will accept clients in post-acute status.

The SafeGuards program provides effective treatment and secure, highly supervised environments for children and adolescents. Comprehensive support and training is also provided to both the host and legal family.

General and specialized SafeGuards services include:

  • Sexual arousal restructuring
  • Periodic clinical polygraphs
  • Minimal arousal conditioning
  • Deviant fantasy journaling
  • Vicarious sensitization
  • Psychiatric assessment and medication maintenance
  • Minimum one hour individual counseling per week
  • Minimum two hours group counseling per week
  • Independent living training and transition
  • Education and career supervision
  • Twenty-four hour supervision
  • Room and board
  • Transportation
  • Activity of Daily Living Training
  • Supervision of homework and school activities
  • Community integration and activity
  • Implementation of specific therapeutic strategies
  • Emotional support
  • One 12-hour assessment (billed separately)
  • An individualized service plan
  • One hour per week of individual counseling
  • Up to one hour of psychiatric time per month, as needed
  • At least one visit each month from a member of the Safeguard service team.

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