Pathways: Base Camp
by Timothy J. Kahn and Dawn M. Pflugradt

Have you been looking for a workbook for your 11- to 14-year-old clients in treatment for sexual behavior problems? If so, the new Pathways: Base Camp has been written for you.

Tim Kahn and co-author Dawn Pflugradt have developed this easier version of the best-selling Pathways, 5th Edition to meet the needs of younger clients for whom Roadmaps to Recovery is too simple, and Pathways, 5th Edition is too difficult. Base Camp, covers the same therapeutic territory as Pathways, 5th Edition, but is written at a lower reading level and avoids some of the more mature topics. In addition, common words that might trip up some readers are defined in the margins. Base Camp is also a useful therapeutic tool for older adolescents with lower reading skills.

The Base Camp workbook uses a cognitive behavioral approach, with an emphasis on strengths-based methods consistent with the Good Lives Model of rehabilitation to help young clients build on their existing strengths and develop healthy and productive lifestyles. It utilizes a restorative justice framework stressing victim empathy and personal responsibility.

The core belief that is the foundation of both workbooks is that, with proper guidance, most young clients can mature into sexually healthy adults.

The chapter structure and content of Base Camp tracks the chapter structure and content of Pathways. Therefore, it can be used in treatment programs and treatment groups with some clients working in Pathways and others working in Base Camp. However, there is one exception: the printed Base Camp workbook does not include chapters equivalent to Pathways chapters 12 and 13. Instead, Safer Society Press is offering those two Base Camp chapters, titled, Supplemental Chapter A and Supplemental Chapter B, as free downloads for clinicians as pdf and PowerPoint files. This change was made to make Base Camp more affordable for counseling programs and more appropriate for some younger clients.

Click here to view the Table of Contents and Introduction.

Several free supplemental resources give you more tools for working with your clients, including the PDF Clinician’s Guide.

If you’ve been looking for a workbook that spans the age gap between Pathways, 5th Edition and Roadmaps to Recovery, you’ll want to consider Pathways: Base Camp.

Click here to access the digital Clinician's guide.

Digital Supplemental Materials included with the purchase of the workbook:

• Assignments of which you may want to provide additional copies to your clients
• The Healthy Living Project
• The Base Camp Final Exam
• Supplemental Chapter A
• Supplemental Chapter B

What is the Healthy Living Project?

The Healthy Living Project (HLP) and its emphasis on building client honesty, responsibil­ity, sensitivity, and integrity, is now a prominent feature of every chapter. Understanding that today’s teen clients have grown up in the digital age, the 5th Edition includes instructions for building the HLP using a PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation in lieu of a paper scrapbook.

To that end, Timothy Kahn has developed a PowerPoint template for the Healthy Living Project that allows clinicians and clients to collaborate on producing this culminating treatment assignment.

The template—which can also serve as a tool for engaging the client in telehealth—is a free download available to all clinicians who purchase the workbook.

About the Authors

Timothy J. Kahn is a nationally recognized clinician and trainer in the field of sexual offender and sexual behavior problem treatment. His well-known workbooks, Pathways and Roadmaps to Recovery serve as models for the treatment process in programs across the country. He and his son Krishan Hansen, MSW, have coauthored Footprints (2005), a guided workbook for developmentally delayed adolescents and adults. Mr. Kahn has been a clinical assistant professor with the University of Washington School of Social Work. From 1990 to 1998 he served as a member and as the chairman of the Washington State Department of Health Sex Offender Treatment Provider Advisory Committee, which developed evaluation and treatment standards and licensing requirements for sex offender treatment providers in the state of Washington. He has also written a book called Healthy Families that is designed to help parents of children and adolescents with sexual behavior problems.  He has been instrumental in the development of training and treatment programs in Washington and British Columbia, and he regularly consults with a number of residential treatment programs and foster-care agencies in the Pacific Northwest. He has served as an expert witness in numerous cases involving children with sexual behavior problems, sexual offenders, sexual misconduct, and sexual offender treatment. Tim currently maintains a private clinical and consultation practice in Bellevue, Washington, where he evaluates and treats children, adolescents, and adults with sexual behavior problems. He is a Certified Sex Offender Treatment Provider, a Licensed Clinical Independent Social Worker, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. He is also a clinical member and fellow of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA).

Dawn Pflugradt, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist with advanced degrees in psychology, social work and bioethics. She works in the area of sex offender assessment and treatment and is an associate professor at the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology where she teaches courses in developmental psychology, personality disorders, and ethics. In addition to her years of clinical experience, Dr. Pflugradt has published numerous articles and book chapters in the areas of pediatrics and sex offender assessment and treatment. She has co-authored the workbook Becoming the Woman I Want to Be, and Gendered Treatment Assessment, both published by Safer Society Press. Dr. Pflugradt also is a certified trainer for the STATIC-99R and STABLE- 2007.