Good Lives Model (GLM) (2026-8-12)

 The Good Lives Model (GLM) is a strengths-based rehabilitation framework designed to help individuals who have committed sexual offenses build meaningful, prosocial lifestyles that naturally make future harmful behavior unnecessary or impossible. Instead of focusing only on risk and deficits, it helps people meet their core human needs in safe, legal ways. [1, 2]

Core Ideas

Primary Human Goods: Focuses on basic needs like healthy living, knowledge, excellence in work or play, inner peace, and healthy relationships.
Flawed Attainment: Views illegal behavior as an unskillful or harmful attempt to secure these normal human needs.
Building Capabilities: Teaches the internal skills and external resources needed to achieve personal goals lawfully. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Treatment Goals

Motivation: Increases cooperation by focusing on what the person values and wants to achieve in life.
Skill Building: Trains individuals in emotional regulation, communication, and problem-solving.
Safety Planning: Combines personal life goals with risk management to prevent future harm. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

If you'd like, I can explain how the Good Lives Model works together with the traditional Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model.