SOAP Overview SOAP Overview Hunt County CSCD serves the 196th and 354th State District Courts. Offenders in the program must attend sex offender treatment. Unlike some traditional therapies, sex offender treatment does not have as its primary goal to make offenders feel better about themselves or cope with stress. Rather, sex offender treatment is very cognitive-behavioral in nature, and offenders in treatment are often confronted with their cognitive distortions.
Group therapy is the preferred modality.
Offenders in treatment learn their offense cycle, victim empathy, construct a relapse prevention plan, and deal with other issues. Offenders are held accountable for their offenses and other dangerous behaviors. An important goal of the program is to have offenders understand and accept responsibility for their offenses, behavior, and thoughts. SOAP utilizes the treatment team approach for supervision of sex offenders, endorsed by the American Probation and Parole Association. Free exchange of information among these members is important to the proper supervision of sex offenders.