Treatment with Adults Who Have Sexually Abused
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This training provides a foundational understanding of treatment for adults who have sexually abused. It is of interest to those who are newer to the field as well as those who wish to develop their existing skills further.
Presenter David Prescott describes the components of effective treatment programming and delivery. He outlines steps for understanding clients in the moment and helping them to find their own motivations and strategies for making changes to their lives. The training explores methods (for example, Motivational Interviewing and the Good Lives Model) that function as frameworks that practitioners can use to organize treatment. It also explores the role of trauma-informed care and discusses how agencies and individual professionals can insure they are approaching treatment with a high degree of fidelity.
Topics discussed include:
- Components of effective treatment
- Characteristics of effective professionals
- The importance of approach goals
- Motivational interviewing and enhancement
- The core principles of the Good Lives Model as an organizing practice framework
- Treatment processes and sequences
- Trauma-informed care
- Fidelity monitoring
This training is part three of a five-part course.
To learn more about the full course on assessing and treating adults who sexually abuse, please click here.
1) Apply the “going upstream” method of finding motivations and strategies for making positive changes.
2) Differentiate among “approach goals” in treatment planning.
3) Describe ten “primary human goods” or “good life goals” that appear to be relevant to all human beings.
4) Explain how the pursuit of “primary human goods” or “good life goals” can serve as motivators for sexual abuse by adults.
5) Describe how early adversity can develop into risk factors for sexual abuse by adults.
6) Use scaling questions for assessing internal motivation to achieve good life goals.
Audience
This training is for professionals working with people who have problematic behaviors. Professionals who will benefit from this training include social workers, psychologists, clinical counselors, and interested paraprofessionals.
Content Level
Disclosure
Continuing Education Approval
American Psychological Association (APA)
Safer Society Foundation, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Safer Society Foundation, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Who's Presenting
David Prescott, LICSW, ATSA-F
A mental health practitioner of 40 years, David Prescott is the Director of the Safer Society Continuing Education Center. He is the author and editor of 25 books in the areas of understanding and improving services to at-risk clients. He is best known for his work in the areas of understanding, assessing, and treating sexual violence and trauma. Mr. Prescott is the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Contribution award from the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA), the 2018 recipient of the National Adolescent Perpetration Network’s C. Henry Kempe Lifetime Achievement award, and the 2022 recipient of the Fay Honey Knopp Award from the New York State Alliance for the Prevention of Sexual Abuse and New York State ATSA. He also served as ATSA President in 2008-09. Mr. Prescott currently trains and lectures around the world. His published work has been translated into Japanese, Korean, German, French, Polish, and Southern Tutchone. He has served on the editorial boards of four scholarly journals.