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The Good Way Model: An innovative strengths-based approach to the treatment of young people, especially those with developmental delay who have sexually abusive behaviour.Download this presentation (Part 1) - 788KB PDF AuthorLesley Ayland and Bill WestPresenterLesley Ayland and Bill WestOrganisationWellington STOP41 Birch St Waterloo Lower Hutt PO Box 45109 Epuni Lower Hutt The Good Way model is strengths-based, uses narrative therapy approaches and encompasses relapse prevention. The model encourages therapists, clients and families to be creative and resourceful in exploring and finding solutions to abuse-related and other problems. It was developed using the language and concepts of the young people themselves; preliminary indications from a New Zealand wide research project suggest that clients and their families readily assimilate this model. It is especially useful for young people with developmental delay and with older children and younger adolescents. There are two streams to the model. The first (Good Way/Bad Way) focuses on the young people understanding that they have choices over their behaviour, including their abusive behaviour, and assists them to develop their strengths and their ability to choose the "Good Way" in any given situation. The other stream (Good House/Bad House) deals with their own experience of loss and trauma and assists them to do their own healing, to appreciate the impact on others of their abusive behaviour, to take steps to repair relationships, and to develop the skills needed for their "Good Life". PresentationPaperBiographyLesley Ayland and Bill West have both been working at Wellington STOP, New Zealand, a community-based treatment centre for people with sexually abusive behaviour, for the past 9 years. Lesley is a clinical psychologist and is the Team Leader of the Youth Team and Bill is a social worker and Senior Therapist in the same team. They have jointly run the Warriors group, for young people with special needs, for seven years. They developed the Good Way Model through working with these young people. They have presented this model throughout New Zealand and to several national and international conferences including ANZATSA in 2003 and 2004 and ATSA in 2003. They will be presenting the model at the NOTA conference in Dublin later this year. They are currently working with Professor Tony Ward to publish this work.Prior to working at Wellington STOP Lesley worked for a number of years with women and children affected by sexual abuse. Bill has a background as a teacher in England and Africa and as a probation officer for 17 years in New Zealand. |
