The Mary Davis Home Sexual Aggression and Deviancy program (SADTP) focus is to provide counseling for youths in the Mary Davis Home and/or on probation or court supervision who have committed a sexually abusive act. The program exists as most areas do not have intensive counseling services available that specifically address sexually aggressive and abusive behaviors. Such problem-specific counseling is important, as more general counseling can actually result in the sexually abusive behavior becoming worse.

The Ninth Judicial Circuit's Sexual Aggression and Deviancy Treatment Program believes:

1. That sexually aggressive and abusive acts are not impulsive acts nor typically the result of mental illness or substance abuse.
2. That following a "relapse prevention model" can be useful in helping youth to prevent further sexually aggressive or abusive acts, understand the possible causes and effects of their behavior, and develop strategies to manage their behavior in non-aggressive, non-abusive ways. The youth will learn to identify "high risk" situations, thinking errors and poor decision-making strategies which might lead to reoffending. Only upon identifying these factors is the youth able to then establish his or her specific plan to prevent further abusive behavior.
3. Gaining an understanding of the impact of their actions upon their victims and others may also assist the youth in preventing further abusive behavior.
4. Youth should address their own issues of being victims of abuse.
5. Sensitivity to the victim is very important. At no time in the counseling will the needs of the sexually abusive person be given priority over those of past or present victims