Sex Offender Treatment Provider
- Exam
- No exam
- Education
- Degree
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- Specific type of conviction prohibited
A licensed sex offender treatment provider (LSOTP) is a mental health professional who provides services for the treatment of sex offenders. A sex offender is a person who has been convicted or adjudicated of a sex crime or a sexually motivated offense, or has received deferred adjudication for a sex crime or a sexually motivated offense. Sex offender treatment occurs through offense specific sex offender treatment, which is a long-term comprehensive set of planned treatment experiences and interventions that modify sexually deviant thoughts, fantasies, and behaviors and that utilize specific strategies to promote change and to reduce the chance of re-offending. The primary method of treatment is behavioral group treatment.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- No exam
- Education
- Degree required
- Continuing education
- Continuing education required
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- Specific type of conviction prohibited
- Physical requirement
- No physical requirements
- Military and veterans
- Expedited processing is available for military and spouses, and a separate licensure by endorsement process occurs
Issuing body
- Department
- Texas Health and Human Services Commission
- Division
- Licensing, Credentialing and Regulation
- Address
- PO Box 13247 Austin, TX 78711
- Phone
- (512) 424-6500
- Last updated
- August 10, 2023
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Source and verification
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