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A Strategic Model for Sex Addicts
Carol Juergensen Sheets, LCSW, CSAT
Carol the Coach
Copyright 2014 Carol Juergensen Sheets
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-2129-2
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+ A Strategic Model for Sex Addicts +
This unique manual:
•Highlights a dynamic group approach for men that decreases reliance on individual therapy, while simultaneously teaching how to create a network of support that promotes recovery.
•Offers creative strategies and actual exercises that utilize the recovery task model and brief strategic therapeutic techniques.
•Recommends a format to teach men shame reduction, improved self-esteem, and life skills that enhance healthy relationships.
•Provides necessary information to develop this format in your own practice.
•Outlines how dynamic group therapy improves clinical outcomes and client satisfaction.
This is a 15-week structured program around the stages of group development, utilizing a wide variety of therapeutic activities. I trained with Dr. Patrick Carnes and have used many of his ideas as a catalyst for my groups. Dr. Patrick Carnes' "Thirty-Task Recovery Model" has been empirically validated to be an effective form of treatment for sexually compulsive behavior. This workbook was developed based on my CSAT training and the recovery work that I learned in that training. His book, Facing the Shadows, contains many additional exercises that can be useful in treating men with sex addiction. Other group exercises and activities are experiential because they are active and interactive, allowing the entire group to benefit from the experience. It must be stressed that these activities change with group needs and composition. Although there is a structured outline for the group experience due to the infrastructure of the recovery task mode, each man in recovery is unique in his struggle and therefore it is vital to be flexible and to individualize the process to each client.
It is my personal and professional belief that group work is most clinically effective when two therapists are present. Since I am in private practice, I have run this group solely without the help of a group facilitator. It would be my hope that someday I could utilize a veteran group member who has solid recovery to be my co-facilitator to provide a second guide in this therapeutic group process.
This manual will highlight group exercises that have been essential to therapeutic change and recovery. It will also allow the clinician to assess common pitfalls that naturally occur in group because of the stages of group or the length of time each man spends in group. It is common in group dynamics for members to experience ambivalent feelings about commitment to another group series of 15 sessions, so the manual will outline how to manage the influx and graduation of group members.
