Pathways Fourth Edition
About This Program
Target Population: Adolescent males and females with sexual behavior problems, ages 12-18
For children/adolescents ages: 12 – 18
For parents/caregivers of children ages: 12 – 18
Program Overview
Pathways Fourth Edition is a structured, guided workbook for use with adolescent males and females with sexual behavior problems, including but not limited to sexual offending. Pathways Fourth Edition focuses extensively on helping clients develop healthy and responsible patterns of thinking and behavior, and also provides concrete guidance about how to control sexual feelings in healthy and responsible ways, including guidelines for successful friendships and dating relationships. Relapse prevention techniques are reinforced, as is a new focus on helping clients develop healthy and responsible lifestyles by creating a Healthy Living Project to follow. Pathways Fourth Edition includes new skill and knowledge-based exercises that aim to help clients identify feelings, manage anger, and become more sensitive to others. Pathways Fourth Edition also provides concrete tools for completing the victim clarification (apology) process and the family reunification process. This workbook is a treatment tool that hopefully leads the client towards a lifestyle of honesty, responsibility, sensitivity, and integrity.
Program Goals
The goals of Pathways Fourth Edition are:
- Reduction in sexually inappropriate or illegal behavior
- Increase in adaptive social behavior
- Increase in overall responsibility in daily life
- Increase in sensitivity to others
- Increase in honesty about sexual feelings and behavior
- Increase in self-esteem and improve social relationships
- Decrease in aggressive behavior
Logic Model
The program representative did not provide information about a Logic Model for Pathways Fourth Edition.
Essential Components
The essential components of Pathways Fourth Edition include:
- Psychoeducation about sexuality and legal and illegal sexual behavior
- Cognitive restructuring, and awareness of thinking errors (cognitive distortions)
- Group therapy with 8-12 adolescents to provide peer-support and guidance
- Support for disclosure of sexual feelings and behavior
- Victim awareness training
- Cognitive-behavioral training in understanding the connection between feelings, thoughts, and behavior, and understanding behavior chains
- Specific training in arousal reconditioning methods to gain mastery over sexual feelings, including covert sensitization, thought stopping, and other arousal control methods
- Education about responsible sexual relationships, and training in establishing healthy peer-age relationships
- Guidance in the victim clarification (apology) process, and training in family reunification skills
- Chapter-by-chapter testing to ensure acquisition of skills and knowledge
- Provision of a culminating project consisting of development of a Healthy Living Project that incorporates relapse prevention techniques, victim awareness, as well as components of the "Good Lives" model of rehabilitation
- Parent companion guide - see "Services Involve Family/Support Structures" section in "Child/Adolescent Services" below
Program Delivery
Child/Adolescent Services
Pathways Fourth Edition directly provides services to children/adolescents and addresses the following:
- Sexual behavior problems, including sexual offending, pornography addiction, sexual harassment, and any sexually motivated behavior problem.
Services Involve Family/Support Structures:
This program involves the family or other support systems in the individual's treatment: Many of the exercises in Pathways Fourth Edition require parental involvement, and a companion guide, Healthy Families, A Guide for Parents of Children and Adolescents with Sexual Behavior Problems is also available. The Healthy Families book provides supportive information for parents about the evaluation and treatment process for youth with sexual behavior problems, and also includes a parental involvement section so that parents can follow and participate in their child’s treatment process.
Parent/Caregiver Services
Pathways Fourth Edition directly provides services to parents/caregivers and addresses the following:
- Have an adolescent who is having problems managing their anger
Recommended Intensity:
1.5 hour weekly sessions
Recommended Duration:
12 – 24 months, generally
Delivery Settings
This program is typically conducted in a(n):
- Outpatient Clinic
- Group or Residential Care
Homework
Pathways Fourth Edition includes a homework component:
Pathways Fourth Edition has regular homework assignments where clients are asked to practice key skills. A daily journaling requirement is also included.
Resources Needed to Run Program
The typical resources for implementing the program are:
Any counseling office
Manuals and Training
Prerequisite/Minimum Provider Qualifications
Usually a Master's degree and specialized training in working with adolescents with sexual behavior problems
Manual Information
There is a manual that describes how to deliver this program.
Training Information
There is training available for this program.
Training Contact:
- Timothy Kahn, MSW
timothykahn@cs.com
phone: (425) 462-9647
Training Type/Location:
Onsite at request of the agency
Number of days/hours:
Variable, usually 1-2 days
Relevant Published, Peer-Reviewed Research
Currently, there are no published, peer-reviewed research studies for Pathways Fourth Edition.
Additional References
No reference materials are currently available for Pathways Fourth Edition.
Contact Information
- Timothy Kahn, MSW
- Agency/Affiliation: Timothy Kahn and Associates
- Website: safersocietypress.org/store/pathways
- Email: timothykahn@cs.com
- Phone: (425) 462-9647
- Fax: (425) 462-9333
Date Research Evidence Last Reviewed by CEBC: June 2015
Date Program Content Last Reviewed by Program Staff: March 2020
Date Program Originally Loaded onto CEBC: June 2011
