When: Friday October 17, 2025 10:00am - 4:00pm
Where: Bellevue Botanical Garden
12001 Main St, Bellevue, WA 98005
Practical Application of the Good Lives Model with David S. Prescott, LCSW, LICSW
The Good Lives Model (GLM) is an overarching practice framework for the treatment of people who sexually abuse. Its use has become increasingly widespread among programs and professionals. Research has shown that using the GLM can increase treatment engagement, an important component of effective programs. Through its interactive twin focus on attaining wellbeing while managing risk, the GLM offers a comprehensive approach for the way forward for clients whose actions have caused harm to others. Care must be taken, however, as any program that is misapplied might increase the very risks it seeks to mitigate.
This training focuses on the GLM in practice and includes a focus on the new GLM book by Tony Ward, Gwen Willis, David Prescott, Stijn Vandevelde , Mary Barnao , and Wouter Wanzeele (due out on August 25, 2025). The training includes small and large-group discussion in a relaxing atmosphere.
Learning Objectives
As a result of this training, participants will be better able to:
1) Explain the “Primary Human Goods” of the Good Lives Model (GLM), often operationalized as “Good Life Goals.”
2) Distinguish between Common Life Goals that are important to the client in general, and those goals implicated in their offending specifically
3) Explain four kinds of obstacles that clients have experienced to implementing their Good Life Plan
4) Describe GLM-based assessment and intervention planning
5) Distinguish between integration and implementation of GLM
Bio
A mental health practitioner of 41 years, David Prescott is the Director of the Safer Society Continuing Education Center. In that capacity he has overseen over 200 webinar interviews and trainings with a combined total of over 63,000 registrations.
Mr. Prescott is the author and editor of 30 books in the areas of understanding and improving services to at-risk clients. This includes two primary texts on the Good Lives Model and several workbooks. Mr. Prescott has received three lifetime achievement awards from international organizations. He also served as ATSA President in 2008-09.
He also served as Co-Blogger for ATSA’s Sexual Abuse blog, which has been read over a million times and was recently rated among the top blogs in the world on the topic.
Box lunches will be provided by Fare Start. View the menu here.
5 CEUs available
WATSA is a Washington State DOH approved CE provider. CE Hours earned at this training count towards hours needed to renew your SOTP credential and/or your underlying health care license. We are not an approved provider for organizations such as the APA, NASW, AAFT or NBCC.
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