The report concludes with a section on recommendations that specifies treatment goals. The basic purpose of this programming is to assist the offenders in correcting certain deficits or maladaptive behaviors. The regimen is actually a set of non- threatening presentations and discussion in a classroom setting. To learn about DRC sex offender programs and services The Victim Awareness curriculum of psychoeducational programming is considered the most important component, as the focus of these interventions is to bring the offenders to an understanding of the effects of their crimes on their victims. They learn about the Rape Trauma Syndrome, common feelings experienced by victims of sexual violence and the effects of child sexual abuse.
Offenders also learn to distinguish between certain myths and facts regarding sexual assault.
As they absorb the information presented in the classes, distortions about children, women, sexuality and victims are corrected. Facing Denial Denial is a very powerful force in a sex offender's view of his or her victimizing behavior. Offenders either deny or seriously minimize their deviant behavior. Denial is a formidable obstacle to treatment, or at the least, to getting the offender to take responsibility for what he or she has done. In psychoeducational programming, offenders learn about systems of denial, i.e., the purposes denial and minimizations serve, how they distort reality, the different types of denial and how denial perpetuates victimizing behavior.