Tom Keating is a well-known and highly regarded therapist in the mental
health field who has developed a breakthrough therapy. His specialized
area of practice is the treatment of adults with developmental delays,
mental illness and sexual offending behaviors. A Licensed Mental Health
Counselor and Licensed Social Worker, Tom has created a 7-step treatment
for individuals who sexually offend called RESPECT®
The program stresses personal responsibility for behaviors and applies
a multi-systemic, multi-sensory approach that has greatly reduced
the amount of recidivism in such patients.
He
has published his RESPECT® program in several
major health care journals, including The Forum (an Atsa publication),
The Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, Haworth Press and Sexual
Offender Treatment bio psychosocial perpectives. In 1998, he presented
at the World Conference on Violence, Caracas, Venezuela. In 2001,
Dr. Ken Fletcher, Director of the Behavioral Science
Research Core at UMASS Medical School,
Worcester, MA was awarded a major grant from the National Institution
of Mental Health to treat adolescence that sexually offend other children.
Tom
did his graduate work at Assumption College, Worcester, where he received
his MA degree in Social Rehabilitation, and Fitchburg State College,
where he was awarded a CAGS certificate in Interdisciplinary Studies
in Behavioral Science. He earned his BA degree at UMASS, Amherst,
MA, in Experimental Psychology. Tom has been in the human services
field since 1970.
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Thomas P. Keating, LMHC
“I
began this program by studying the brain, especially the limbic system
and how we receive more than 83% of our information through the senses.
It took eight years to develop a multi-sensory relapse prevention treatment intervention
for a population that has developmental delays, major mental illness,
and physical challenges who sexually offend. RESPECT is also being used to treat adolescents
with challenging sexual issues. RESPECT is an action program.
It is not what you say - it’s what you do that counts.”
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