Treatment for Overwhelmed Families Affected by Sexual Abuse

In this training, Amanda Pryor explores methods and techniques for engaging families experiencing these challenges, while also addressing the professionals’ own feelings of being overwhelmed. This includes how to carefully redefine one’s approach when previous providers have not been helpful, such as by shifting from interventions that may unintentionally target parents to more inclusive family support methods.

By better using proven engagement techniques, professionals can guide families through difficult changes and ease their feelings of being overwhelmed. The training emphasizes the use of motivational interviewing specifically to foster a supportive environment during treatment. Additionally, it offers ideas on how to effectively assist family reunification efforts at times when families are facing pressures from outside agencies, financial strain, and other challenges.

Our Safe Haven: Navigating Sexuality Education Competency

In this Our Safe Haven, we invite you to join practitioner Robin Cooper and David Prescott to explore CSE as its own kind of cultural competence, particularly for professionals working with clients who have experienced or committed acts of violence and sexual abuse.

The session will begin with a focused review of a comprehensive sexuality education, evolving naturally into an engaging, attendee-driven conversation shaped by shared experiences and professional insights.

Using Sex Positivity in Clinical Practice to Improve Therapeutic Outcomes

For decades, the treatment of people who have sexually offended operated from a predominantly risk-focused perspective. That is, telling clients what they should not do sexually, rather than helping clients use approach goals to develop healthy outlets for their natural human sexual needs. While risk management remains important, clinical experience suggests that adopting a sex-positive approach can enhance clients’ therapeutic outcomes and support their long-term rehabilitation.

Understanding Child Sexual Grooming – Part 1: Beyond the Myths to the Reality

Misinformation surrounding the term “grooming” is widespread, and the term is often weaponized in public discourse, where it is suggested that children can be “groomed” quite quickly by even brief exposure to certain books, individuals, or media. In this first of three blog posts, we’ll take a look at what grooming really is, examine some ways it is carried out, and consider ways it can be prevented.

The misuse of the term not only distorts the true meaning of the act, but it also creates confusion and fear that can hinder real prevention efforts. This is why it is crucial to clarify what the term truly means and, just as importantly, what it does not mean.