Ending of counseling program for inmates with sex abuse penalty in
Aiud Prison

From March to September 2011 Rescue Humanitarian Foundation has
developed a psychological counseling program in Aiud Prison for a group of
people in detention in the maximum security section who have committed facts with
sexual connotations. The program included individual and group meetings each
week with a total length of about 6 months.
The purpose of the program was to provide psychological support and
assistance to persons who have committed sexual offenses, to reduce the
risk of both sexual and general recidivism.
The program was attended by 10 adult males definitively convicted for a
penalty of a sexual nature, of which 7 were able to be present until the end.
The results of the program consist in changing participants' thinking about
female and have reduced gender stereotypes, have developed social skills and
interpersonal relation, identify possible causes for their criminal behavior and found
alternatives behavior.

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