ABSTRACT
Most every secure treatment, hospital, and residential program is careful to provide aftercare for clients who have been released to the community. In the case of group care programs, this aftercare generally consists of the client being referred to an outpatient therapy group for continued sex offense-specific work. Greer (1991) defines aftercare as “that portion of comprehensive adolescent sexual perpetrator treatment intervention that takes place in the community after the offender is released from an institutional treatment program” (p. 377). Furthermore, he states that the essential functions of such aftercare services are to monitor the offender and to “facilitate the transfer of the therapeutic process to the community” (p. 377).
