A New Approach to EMDR and the Treatment of Problematic Sexual Behavior
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Research shows that individuals who sexually offend have higher levels of adverse childhood experiences than either the general population or other criminal populations. Often, these experiences lead to challenges in regulating emotion, and in forming intimate relationships, healthy sexual attitudes and beliefs, and prosocial attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. These challenges can contribute to sex offending as well as problems with repetitive, compulsive sexual behavior.
This training examines how the Adaptive Information Processing mechanism inherent in Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy can help clients to manage elements that contributed to their offending. It introduces the Offense Driver Model (ODM), which is derived from five extant models in the sex offending literature. The ODM provides a systematic way to conceptualize and identify relevant treatment targets. This model considers emotions/affect, personality features, reactive dynamics, unconscious elements, and cognitions that can be activated when clients are exposed to environmental or situational cues.
The presenters discusses key topics such as:
- Attachment styles and their role in problematic sexual behaviors
- Pathways to hypersexuality
- Offense Driver Model as a way to clarify dynamic risk factors
- Overview of Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) and how it can address offense drivers
Case examples will illustrate the process of identifying offense-driving treatment targets for resolution.
1) Describe why assessing a client’s attachment style is foundational to effective case conceptualization for those who have caused sexual harm.
2) Define the Offense Driver Model.
3) Explain the function of Adaptive Information Processing in the EMDR therapy process.
4) Explain the offense driver parallel process when applying therapeutic interventions.
5) Utilize case conceptualization and treatment planning to address etiological, root causes.
Audience
This training is for professionals working with people who have who have perpetrated abuse. 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
Ronald J. Ricci, PhD, ATSA-F
Ronald J. Ricci, PhD, is a Virginia Certified Sex Offender Treatment Provider and Certified EMDR Approved Consultant. He holds a Governor appointed seat on the Pennsylvania Sex Offender Assessment Board (SOAB). He is a Fellow of the Association for the Treatment & Prevention of Sexual Abusers (ATSA). He served as Clinical Director for Sex Offender Services and served as adjunct clinical faculty training graduate students. He provides clinical consultation for adolescent, adult, outpatient, and residential programs. He specializes in the treatment and research of individuals who have caused sexual harm, with a particular interest in trauma effects and EMDR therapy about which he has presented and published nationally and internationally.