Being a Pro: Promoting Prosocial Development in Youths
This webinar is for professionals, including those working with juvenile probation youths, who are interested in understanding and implementing the Being a Pro treatment model, which is designed to help youths stop reacting impulsively and make prosocial choices.
There are many factors contributing to why youths break the law, but there is significant evidence that one contributing factor is deficits in prosocial reasoning (McMurran & McGuire, 2005).
How do we help youths stop reacting impulsively and, instead, think through their options and make prosocial choices that are good for others but also make life better for themselves?
The Being a Pro treatment model is the result of Dr. Ralph’s 35 years of clinical experience working intensively with juvenile probation youths. After studying the use of Aggression Replacement Training, an effective but lengthy, 30-session prosocial treatment method at a Stockton, California residential treatment center for youths, Dr. Ralph designed an equally effective treatment approach that is only 10 modules in length, easier to implement, can be done in one-to-one sessions or groups, and is based on current developmental and neuropsychological theory.
In this webinar, Dr. Ralph discusses the evidence behind the Being a Pro model, the outcomes studies supporting the effectiveness of the approach, and how to use the materials he has developed for treatment professionals to successfully use the approach — including the Being a Pro Teen Workbook and free supplemental materials: the Counselor Manual, Research and Theory Manual, Pre- and Post-Tests for assessing outcomes, and a training video — all available through Safer Society Press.
Who's Presenting
Norbert Ralph, Ph.D, MPH
Dr. Ralph is a clinical psychologist, formerly at the Juvenile Justice Center in San Francisco, and Coordinator of the Juvenile Sexual Responsibility Program. Dr. Ralph is a psychiatric epidemiologist, and neuropsychologist, who has nearly 40 publications including articles, book chapters, blogs, or books. He was formerly Associate Clinical Professor in Family Practice, University of California School of Medicine at Davis, and Lecturer and Research Biostatistician in the Program in Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Trainer for Aggression Replacement Training, through the California Institute for Mental Health. He is a member of the Quality Management Committee, AllCare Independent Physicians Association. He is on the Conference Committee of the Forensic Mental Health Association of California.