The challenges facing parents, caregivers, and adolescents in today’s digital landscape have arguably never been more complicated. All too often, adolescents find themselves navigating the harsh realities of readily available media without adequate guidance. Meanwhile, parents and caregivers are constrained by time and resources to help them and struggle to keep pace with these rapidly evolving technological issues. In this webinar, Seth Wescott and David Prescott review recent research and discuss the changing face of clinical practice in the current era. They offer ideas for understanding these issues and provide strategies for supporting adolescents and their families as they navigate this digital landscape.

The sexual grooming of children has emerged as a focal point of renewed public interest and prevention research. Child sexual grooming is a deliberate and deceptive process that paves the way to child sexual abuse. It involves behaviors that provide predators with access to children while reducing the likelihood that the abuse will be detected. Grooming tactics target not only the child but their caregivers and other influential adults as well.

This webinar features Drs. Doyle Pruitt and Molly Wolf, who discuss what professionals need to know about child sexual grooming