Safe Guard Program - Sex Offenders in Community based Treatment




APPENDIX F



EXAMPLES OF LAPSES

Alone with potential victim

Deviant fantasy

Feel aroused to children

Feeling angry to the point of exploding or wanting to hurt someone

Feeling hopeless… "there's no use in trying anymore"

Feeling intense loneliness

Feeling you're "cured"

Go to topless bars/strip shows

Looking at women's/children's/men's anatomy other than making eye contact or looking at them as whole human beings

Masturbate to deviant fantasy

Purchase or use alcohol or drugs

Purchase or view pornography

Talk with potential victim(s)

Think about being alone with a child

Thinking it's okay to use drugs this one time

Thinking of people as object

Thinking there is no harm in talking to children

Thinking, "I deserve to do…"

Use of prostitutes

(VTPSA, Worksheet #10a, 1991)



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