Illinois Administrative Code › Title 20 - CORRECTIONS, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Part 1905 › Subpart C - APPROVAL AND REMOVAL PROCEDURES › Section 1905.120 - Responsivity Factors and Special Populations

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Treatment providers shall acknowledge the diversity among
				  individuals who sexually abuse others and that responsiveness to sexual
				  abuser-specific treatment can vary as a function of client characteristics such
				  as demographics, language, development, capabilities, functioning and
				  motivation to change.
a) Treatment
				providers recognize that not all treatments have been developed or evaluated
				with various subpopulations of sexual abusers (e.g., individuals with
				intellectual and developmental disabilities, clients with serious mental
				illness, those with varied cultures and other demographics). The limitations of
				treatments with these populations should be identified prior to initiating
				treatment services.
b) Treatment
				providers appreciate that treatment for sexual abusers is more effective when
				responsivity factors are addressed and recognize the potential for unintended
				collateral consequences when services fail to take into account responsivity
				factors.
c) Treatment providers
				assess and identify responsivity factors, such as comprehension, cognitive
				capabilities, adaptive functional level, psychiatric stability, and other
				factors that may impact a client's ability to maximally benefit from sexual
				abuser-specific treatment.
d)
				Treatment providers strive to adjust approaches to interventions and match
				clients to appropriate services based on identified responsivity factors in
				order to facilitate clients' maximum benefit from services. This includes, for
				example, the provision of language interpreters, services for deniers, services
				for clients with cognitive or developmental limitations, and culturally
				competent programming.
e) Treatment
				providers strive to equip themselves with the knowledge and skills necessary to
				adequately address clients' responsivity factors and/or special needs by
				participating in professional development activities.
f) Treatment providers recognize their own
				strengths and limitations with respect to their ability to provide adequately
				responsive services to clients and refer clients to qualified providers skilled
				in addressing specific responsivity factors, when necessary.
g) Treatment providers understand that, for
				some subpopulations of sexual abusers, sexual abuser-specific treatment
				services are best provided subsequent to or in concert with other psychiatric,
				behavioral or responsivity-oriented interventions. Treatment providers offering
				sexual abuser-specific treatment collaborate with the providers of those
				services to ensure that sexual abuser-specific services are complementary and
				not contraindicated.
h) Treatment
				providers providing sexual abuser-specific treatment work closely with a
				client's partner, family members and other community support persons who can
				facilitate successful treatment outcomes because of their abilities to attend
				to a given client's specific responsivity factors.