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Vol. XXVI, No. 1 Winter 2014 Book Review: Where Are We Now? Reflections on The Good Lives Model for Adolescents and How We Define “Models” David S. Prescott, LICSW Director of Professional Development and Quality Improvement Becket Family of Services Introduction Bobbie Print, CQSW, aided by numerous authors, has recently published The Good Lives Model for Adolescents who Sexually Harm. It chronicles the diligent and often courageous journey of the G-MAP program in the UK from an unspecified relapse prevention approach to adapting the good lives model for use with adolescent males. Ms. Print is clear that it is not the final word in applying the good lives model to adolescents, while contributors Helen Griffin and Laura Wylie further note that it is not a stand-alone model, but necessarily overlaps with others. The Good Lives Model for Adolescents who Sexually Harm receives an excellent review on its own merits by Phil Rich in this issue of the Forum. The current article places this book project in the context of the broader good lives model (GLM) as well as the more general field of assessing and treating adolescents who have sexually abused. The following commentary further asks questions about the evolution of models and where they begin and end in daily practice. Background The first Evolution of Psychotherapy conference in 1985 (often dubbed “Woodstock for therapists”) focused on individual pioneers. Carl Rogers discussed therapy as he saw it, as did James Bugental, Virginia Satir, Murray Bowen, and many others. Sophie Freud and Margot Adler discussed the contributions of their forebears. The names of the actual methods, such as ges