Pride Month 2024: Creating Safe Spaces to Support LGBTQ+ Youths
As we celebrate Pride Month, it's essential to recognize the unique challenges faced by LGBTQ+ individuals, particularly youths, in accessing ...
Addressing Trauma in Adolescents: The Trauma and Grief Component Therapy Approach
Tragedies such as school shootings attract a great deal of attention from the media, as they should, and it is ...
The Importance of Self-Care for Mental Health Professionals During Awareness Month
May marks a significant month on the calendar for mental health professionals and the broader community. It is designated as ...
Applying Neuroscience to Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention
April marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), a time to reflect on how we can come together to better prevent ...
Social Work Month: A Needed Shift Towards Understanding People Who Sexually Abuse
If you conduct a web search of “famous psychotherapists,” you’ll get a long list of well-known names such as Freud, ...
Navigating the Complexities of Teen Sexting and Sexual Trends
Insights and Guidance from Dr. Debby Herbenick A surprising one-third of young people between the ages of 11 and 21 ...
Understanding the Impact of Stress and Self-Care: Key Findings from the 2023 Safer Society Survey
By: David S. Prescott, Janet DiGiorgio-Miller, and Sarah Snow Haskell The global events of the past few years have significantly ...
A New Era at MASOC
We want to congratulate the folks at MASOC for the appointment of Meg Bossong as the agency's first full-time executive ...
Navigating Effective Treatment Methods for Individuals Who Have Sexually Abused
The Challenges of Determining the Most Impactful Approach Clinicians and researchers who work with people who have sexually abused agree ...
Innovations in the Treatment of People Who Sexually Abuse
A Strengths-Based Approach with William and Liam Marshall In the mid-1970s, William Marshall and his colleagues at Queen’s University began ...
New Year’s Resolution – 2024
Hone your knowledge and level up your skills. If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to learn about new ...
Preventing School Attacks: A Community Issue that Requires Ongoing Discussion, Education, and Planning
By Alex Rodrigues, PsyD During the past year, the U.S. has experienced another tragic wave of targeted violence (TV). Over ...
Pornography, Social Media, and Teens
Adolescents have become increasingly exposed to pornography through social media, and with this comes potential dangers to their mental health ...
The Holiday Season is Tough on Mental Health Providers
One good piece of advice for dealing with the stress of the holidays is to avoid being alone by connecting ...
Understanding Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects individuals across all walks of life. IPV is abuse or aggression that occurs in a ...
Motivating Suicidal Clients to Keep “Choosing Life”
There is perhaps no more critical time for helping professionals to listen to a client than when they talk about ...
Building Hope and Motivation with Suicidal Clients in Criminal Justice
"About two in five people who are incarcerated have a history of mental illness (37% in state and federal prisons ...
Teen Girls and Mental Wellness
“Young people are telling us that they are in crisis.” – Dr. Kathleen Ethier In the fall of 2021, the ...
Intimate Partner Violence
People who commit Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) are different from others who cause harm. According to the American Psychological Association, ...
A Conversation with Dr. Apryl Alexander: An Article by the American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association recently ran an article on their website titled "Using psychological expertise for the greater good: 4 ...
An Evidence-Based Risk Assessment Tool for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence on College Campuses
Safer Society Press author Sandy Jung co-wrote an article about campus safety that appeared March 6 in the online publication ...
Stopping Offenses Before They Happen: Talking for Change
Ainsle Heasman is a clinical forensic psychologist, an adjunct professor at Ontario Tech University, and a Continuing Education Center trainer ...
Alex Rodrigues: Start the Discussion on School Safety
Dr. Alex Rodrigues will be joining host David Prescott for a Safer Talk Webinar on Wednesday, March 15th, to discuss ...
Parenting Safe Children
Feather Berkower, co-author of our abuse prevention book Off Limits, founded Parenting Safe Children to provide workshops to educate parents ...
Anticipating new dangers for children
David Prescott and his co-authors, Kieran McCartan and Katarzyna Uzieblo, have posted an article to the ATSA blog titled "The ...
ATSA is Calling for Abstracts for the 2023 Conference
The 42nd Annual Research and Treatment Conference sponsored by the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse will ...
Call For Presentations Extended
The New York State ATSA Chapter and the NYS Alliance for the Prevention of Sexual Abuse will be holding their ...
Setting the Standard for Disclosure in Treatment by David Prescott – ATSA Blog
In case you missed it, our colleague David Prescott has written a new article for the ATSA blog titled “Setting ...
Survey of sex-offense specific treatment providers
My name is Alexis Gleason, I am a doctoral candidate in the APA-accredited Counseling Psychology PsyD program at University of ...
Sandy Jung receives CAFA award
We were very pleased to learn that Dr. Sandy Jung has received the 2021 Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations (CAFA) ...
What’s OK? A New Resource for Teens and Young Adults from Stop It Now!
Stop It Now! is a non-profit that strives to help all individuals live healthy and safe lives, be accountable and ...
Safer Society Collaborator Apryl Alexander Receives Prestigious Award for Social Justice
We at Safer Society were thrilled to learn that Dr. Apryl Alexander has received the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Lorraine ...
Dr. Alan Sroufe on Attachment Theory in Action Podcast
Presented by The Knowledge Center at Chaddock, Attachment Theory in Action is a weekly podcast featuring national experts from the ...
ATSA Conference registration now open
We received a notice today that registration is open for the 40th Annual Research & Treatment Conference of the Association ...
Q&A Sessions with Alan Sroufe
At the recent SRCD Biennial Meeting, Safer Society Press hosted two live Q & A sessions with Dr. Alan Sroufe ...
ATSA 2020 – “Blending Voices. Strengthening Lives.”
“Blending Voices. Strengthening Lives.”The 39th Annual Research and Treatment Conference: ATSA 2020 Safer Society is a Gold Sponsor of the ...
Tech platforms still have a long way to go in policing child sex abuse online
"EVERYONE AGREES that child exploitation material should be off the Web. The trouble is actually getting rid of it. The ...
Congratulations to MASOC on their new newsletter
We just received the inaugural issue of the MASOC Practice Update: Prevention and Progress newsletter. Picking up where NEARI Press ...
Author Dr. Alissa Ackerman | The Importance of Connection | TEDxCSULB
"Dr. Alissa R. Ackerman offers a new perspective on restorative justice and how it can help those who suffered from ...
Calls for Abstracts/Presentations
We received a notice in the mail today announcing the call for Abstracts for the 2019 ATSA Conference. You can ...
Incarcerated Pennsylvanians Now Have to Pay $150 to Read
Every year, thousands of people in Pennsylvania prisons write directly to nonprofit organizations, such as Bookem, asking for reading materials, ...
Canada reluctant to extradite sex offenders to the U.S.
An article on the Florida Action Committee website reports that individuals who flee punishment in the United States for sex ...
The fight to eliminate cash bail
Our cash bail system is a big reason why the United States incarcerates more people than any other country on ...
A road map to reduction
The Barre Times Argus -- a well-established Vermont newspaper -- has published an opinion piece drafted by Safer Society Executive ...
#ThatsHarassment
Actor David Schwimmer has produced a series of PSA films to educate people about sexual harassment. Written and directed by ...
ACLU offers advice for those reporting sexual abuse
An article on the American Civil Liberties Union website offers advice for people reporting sexual abuse, but may be worried ...
Webinars from NEARI Press and Training Center
We were on the phone recently with our colleagues at NEARI and heard about their upcoming slate of webinars. We ...
ATSA New York & ALLIANCE looking for nominations for the annual Fay Honey Knopp Award
The New York chapter of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers and the New York State Alliance of ...
Publication when family reconnection and reunification
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center has recently published a book for when family reconnection and reunification after child sexual ...
Geral Blanchard: The Decline in Child Sexual Abuse
Editor's Note: This is the second in our new feature of guest editorials. Feel free to add your thoughts in ...
Gwenda Willis: Setting Aside the Facts
Editor's Note: This is the first in our new feature of guest editorials. Feel free to add your thoughts in ...
Important repudiation of George Will’s misguided column on campus rape
On June 6, the Washington Post published a column by George Will titled "Colleges Become the Victims of Progressivism." It ...
A powerful message about sexual abuse and violence
An important video of Lieutenant General David Morrison, the Australian Chief of Army, was originally shown only to the soldiers ...
New report reveals serious abuse problems on nation’s campuses
A new report of a White House Task Force details the problematic ways in which 55 major colleges and universities ...
New Website for Sex Offender Researchers and Practitioners
We just received word of the new Next Gen Forensic community blog, which sounds to us like a valuable new ...