This training will provide information on applying the Good Lives Model (GLM) in work with adolescents whose behaviors have caused harm to others (including sexual and non-sexual violence). The GLM is a strengths-based rehabilitation practice framework that augments the risk, need, and responsivity principles of effective correctional intervention through its focus on assisting clients to develop and implement meaningful life plans that are incompatible with future offending. Originally developed as a rehabilitation framework for use with adults who have harmed others, this workshop focuses on how the GLM—when properly adapted—can be used with adolescents and young men.

This training closely examines many of its individual tenets (e.g., approach goals, primary human goods). Consideration is given to family involvement and how the etiology of harmful behaviors often results from developmental adversity and challenges in attaining specific goals that are common to all human beings.

Training topics include:

• Overview of what works in treatment
• Principles of effective intervention
• Good Lives Model core principles
• Primary human goods” and “good life goals”
• Obstacles to a “good life plan”
• Case examples
• Implementation considerations