Date: October 16, 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 2:30 pm ET / 8:00 am – 11:30 am PT
Format:   Live interactive training offered via Zoom

Presented by: Kevin M. Powell, PhD (See Bio) 

You must attend the entire live training and complete an evaluation to be eligible for CE credits. If you seek only psychology credits, the evaluation is optional, and you can remain anonymous.

Online Training Description:

Strengths-based services for children, adolescents, families, and adults have become far more widely used in recent years. While much of this practice has been in response to trends in research, many professionals simply prefer to take a more positive, strengths-focused approach, particularly when working with adolescents who have caused sexual harm.

Dr. Kevin Powell has been a leading light in strengths-based work throughout his career, with an extensive record of publications and presentations on the subject.  In this training, Dr. Powell describes a challenging case involving an adolescent mandated to receive sexual offense-specific treatment. He invites participants to join him in exploring the broad range of strengths-based interventions he utilized in this case, including a thorough case conceptualization, the strategies he used to enhance the client’s openness and honesty during the treatment process, and the specific challenges that occurred during the process. He ends the discussion with a summary of a 20-year follow-up of this case.

Take-aways from Dr. Powell’s training include how to:

• Build positive relationships
• Stabilize disruptive behaviors
• Manage sexually impulsive behaviors
• Promote hope and self-efficacy
• Target protective factors linked to resilience
• Enhance prosocial behaviors
• Facilitate a successful transition back into the community

By using a case-study format for this training, Dr. Powell provides an in-depth accounting of how strengths-based approaches can improve professional practice.

Learning Objectives

As a result of this training, attendees will be better able to:

1) Describe strengths-based approaches in the treatment of adolescents who have sexually abused
2) Formulate strengths-based case conceptualizations
3) Create plans for enhancing client openness and honesty
4) Apply specific skills for managing risk while enhancing wellbeing
5) Demonstrate successful termination of treatment

Interactive Follow-Up Meeting

Attendees are invited to join an open discussion 15 minutes following the end of the training, where you can engage with fellow attendees by turning on your camera and microphone. This is an opportunity to share your experiences and contribute to a meaningful exchange of ideas. Time will be allocated to address questions or insights from the training. Please note that attendance is optional and will not affect your eligibility for a training certificate.

We can refund your training fee up to 24 hours prior to the start of the training.

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