Course Name: Assessment and Treatment of Children & Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum
Learning Objectives
As a result of this training, participants will be better able to:
1) Describe how children and adolescents on the autism spectrum perceive the complex socio-sexual environment they live in.
2) Identify the key elements of a comprehensive, best-practice psychosexual risk assessment for neuroatypical children and adolescents who have engaged in problematic sexual behaviors.
3) Implement treatment options for neuroatypical children, youth and adolescents.
4) Explain the differences between emerging paraphiliac and “counterfeit deviance.”
5) Describe developmental insults that lead to problematic sexual behaviors in children and adolescents.