Alabama Administrative Code › Title 950 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES › Chapter 950-1-3 - APPROVAL FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS WHO PROVIDE TREATMENT TO CRIMINAL JUVENILE SEX OFFENDERS › Section 950-1-3-.03 - Glossary

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) Adjudication -
			 the process of rendering a judicial decision as to whether the facts alleged in
			 a petition or other pleading are true; an adjudicatory hearing is that court
			 proceeding in which it is determined whether the allegations of the petition
			 are supported by legally-admissible evidence.
(2) Aftercare - a legal status created by
			 order of the committing court at the time of Release from a state training
			 school whereby a youth is permitted to return to the community subject to
			 supervision by the court or any agency designated by the court and subject to
			 return to the court at any time during the Aftercare period. A committed youth
			 shall be released into Aftercare when the Department determines that said youth
			 is no longer in need of the services of the state training schools and can
			 function within open society under the supervision of a probation officer in
			 accordance with terms and conditions as established by the committing
			 court.
(3) Ancillary Services -
			 Ancillary Services can be provided by individuals who have neither a license
			 nor the necessary experience to meet the standards for independent practice
			 with his [or her] population. Any such services provided should be in
			 conjunction with and under the supervision of approved service providers.
			 Services can include case management and assisting an approved therapist in
			 group activities and other related services to clients while under direct
			 supervision.
(4) Autoeroticism -
			 self-stimulation/masturbation.
(5)
			 Coercion - the use of tricks, bribes, force, threats or intimidation to get
			 someone to go along with what you want to do. Coercion is the tool used to get
			 victims to comply or cooperate.
(6)
			 Community Notification Laws - laws which allow or mandate that law enforcement,
			 criminal justice, or corrections agencies give citizens access to relevant
			 information about certain convicted Juvenile Criminal Sex Offenders living in
			 their communities.
(7) Criminal Sex
			 Offense - a crime of a sexual nature described in Section
			 950-1-3-.02,
			 which would be a crime if committed by an adult, when made the basis of an
			 Adjudication of delinquency in any Juvenile court in Alabama.
(8) Department - The Department of Youth
			 Services established in Chapter 1 of Title 44
Code of Ala.
			 1975
, as amended.
(9)
			 Discharge Readiness - the point at which it appears to a multi-disciplinary
			 team working with the offending youth that he [or she] has completed and
			 internalized the techniques learned in their residential treatment program and
			 are able to implement their relapse prevention plan. The professional staff has
			 completed the Risk Assessment report, prepared the report for the Juvenile
			 court judge and is prepared to testify in court to the treatment outcome. The
			 professional is also prepared to give recommendation(s) regarding after care.
			 The judge determines a Risk Level the youth presents to the community and, if a
			 less restrictive setting is indicated, the judge will discharge the youth from
			 the Department facility.
(10)
			 Grooming - the process of manipulation often utilized by child molesters,
			 intended to reduce a victim's or potential victim's resistance to sexual abuse.
			 Typical Grooming activities include gaining the child victim's trust or
			 gradually escalating boundary violations of the child's body in order to
			 desensitize the victim to further abuse.
(11) Incest - sexual relations between close
			 relatives, such as father and daughter, mother and son, sister and brother.
			 This also includes other relatives, step children, and children of common-law
			 marriages.
(12) Informed Consent
			 Statement - a clinical document signed by a sexually abusive youth, which
			 becomes part of the treatment record and may be admissible in court. It implies
			 that the sexually abusive youth understands the benefits and risks of a
			 particular treatment procedure and may voluntarily withdraw from the procedure
			 without consequence (often applies to the use of aversive therapy). Document
			 may also contain statements regarding the type of information that will not
			 remain confidential.
(13)
			 Individualized Service Plan (ISP) - a document outlining the essential
			 treatment issues which must be addressed by the youth with illegal sexual
			 behavior problems. Treatment plans often consist of core problem areas to be
			 addressed in treatment such as cognitive restructuring, emotional development,
			 social and interpersonal skills enhancement, lowering of deviant sexual
			 arousal, anger management, empathy development, understanding of the sexual
			 abuse cycle, and the formulation and implementation of a relapse prevention
			 plan. These plans also include the strengths of the offender that can be built
			 on in the course of treatment. These plans will include:
(a) Strengths;
(b) Problem(s) to be addressed;
(c) Treatment proposed;
(d) Goals of treatment (short and long term
			 goals);
(e) Who is responsible for
			 what steps in the plan; and
(f)
			 Time frame to meet goals.