We started by agreeing that we both wanted the same thing – for him to not reoffend
The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work
Sometimes people attend therapy because they are mandated to attend, not because they want to. Bill* was one of these clients. He sat before me, avoiding eye contact, arms crossed.
“I didn’t hurt anyone, not like those other blokes did,” he said.
Bill had been placed in a sex offenders group treatment program but was terminated for non-attendance. He said that he had found it too hard to hear how the others had offended so he stopped going.
