Understanding the Impact of Stress and Self-Care: Key Findings from the 2023 Safer Society Survey

The global events of the past few years have significantly impacted people’s lives. We’ve found ourselves figuring our way through the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing effects of climate change, political unrest, civil unrest related to racial and ethnic inequities, increases in food and housing insecurity, and cuts in funding for services to people in the criminal justice system. Now more than ever, it is essential that mental health professionals assess their own mental, emotional, and physical health to ensure the wellbeing of both themselves and their clients.

How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

In this webinar, Judith Herman discusses the results of her research and practice across many decades. It has involved listening deeply to survivors and understanding their core needs for acknowledgment of the abuse, accountability, apology, and amends. Dr. Herman also discusses the strengths and limitations of current responses to abuse, such as restorative justice and treatment programs for those who commit acts of violence.

An Introduction to Blending Motivational Interviewing Skills with Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

In this hour-long webinar conversation, Dee-Dee Stout offers a brief overview of how MI and SFBT can be integrated by professionals into a strategy for ensuring the most lasting change among clients in the shortest amount of time. Dee-Dee expertly addresses key considerations, such as the therapist’s role, the focus of the conversation, and the strategic use of scaling questions. Her insights equip attendees with a basic understanding of the approach and how it can be tailored to diverse clinical settings and populations.

Dayna Altman’s Recipes for Healing

Dayna Altman’s uplifting journey of healing and advocacy is a testament to the transformative power of food. In this upcoming webinar, Dayna shares her personal story of living with depression and OCD, and being in long-term eating disorder recovery. Through her experiences, she has found that food not only heals the body but also has the remarkable ability to connect individuals and communities. Dayna delves into her unique recipes for healing, emphasizing the role of food as a source of hope and wellness.

Helping Clients Develop Sexual Wellbeing and Why It Matters

Developing consensual sexual relationships can be a challenge, particularly for clients with problem sexual behaviors. All too often, these clients have little or no meaningful education in sexuality.

Bringing discussions of healthy sexuality to our clients requires candor and comprehensive sexuality education approaches. Yet how do we create an atmosphere of positive, non-coercive, and pleasurable sexual expression for individuals with problem sexual behaviors?

A New Approach to EMDR and the Treatment of Problematic Sexual Behavior

This training examines how the Adaptive Information Processing mechanism inherent in Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy can help clients to manage elements that contributed to their offending. It introduces the Offense Driver Model (ODM), which is derived from five extant models in the sex offending literature. The ODM provides a systematic way to conceptualize and identify relevant treatment targets. This model considers emotions/affect, personality features, reactive dynamics, unconscious elements, and cognitions that can be activated when clients are exposed to environmental or situational cues.

Helping All Children: LGBTQ+ Youths in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems

Youths who identify as LGBTQ+ are as dynamic as the conversations our society is having about them. They are at significantly higher risk for multiple adverse experiences across settings (e.g., home, school, community), and they are over-represented in child-serving systems like juvenile justice and child welfare, where they are more likely to experience more punitive outcomes. All too often, this is simply because of who they are as authentic people. Professionals who work directly with children and adolescents and their families, especially in the fields of child maltreatment, child trauma, and juvenile justice, should be educated on LGBTQ+ youths and the issues they face in order to provide best practices that support positive outcomes.