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In this webinar, Dr. Must and Dr. Pflugradt discuss clinical topics pertinent to women working in the criminal justice system. The speakers also address the different contexts of this work, such as community-based programs and institutional settings. This discussion is recommended for male mental health professionals interested in learning more about these dynamics to be better allies, colleagues, co-therapists, or supervisors.
Dr. Jaimee Mallion has studied group-based offending, including street gang membership, and is finding answers to these questions. In this webinar, she explores what can help young people desist from committing criminal acts in groups.
In this webinar conversation, Ms. Friestad and Ms. Sandbukt will describe their efforts in making these projects happen. Like many professionals around the world, they have faced challenges in the areas of implementing the highest-quality treatment, assisting with community reintegration, coping with stigma, and making services available to those who have not felt that they could trust those offering help.
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Client self-disclosure of personal history is essential to assessment, treatment, and the development of plans for preventing further harm to others. This workshop explores methods for helping clients to explore their lives, including through the use of a structured workbook.
Presenter Steven Sawyer emphasizes how client disclosure can yield information about the individual’s strengths, attachment style, and amenability to treatment.
Given the adverse coercion and stigma of being mandated into sexual offense-specific treatment (SOST), there are extra challenges to engaging males in group-based SOST without encountering resistance, denial, silence, and drop-out. The group-based format presents additional barriers in the form of (anticipated) public humiliation and social condemnation. The speakers present an array of practical methods for pre-treatment preparation that can lower initial defensiveness, while improving motivation and openness to treatment, which can shorten the time it takes for individuals to respond to SOST. In addition to reviewing relevant research about pre-treatment preparation and motivational approaches, the speakers emphasize the crucial importance of “getting a good start” in treatment. They describe a new motivational and strengths-based client workbook that embodies techniques and exercises to prepare clients for their first group and the group based treatment experience. Exercises include self-discovery of personal character strengths, masculinity/gender stereotypes, cooperation, receiving and giving help, and relationships for enhanced motivation and openness to treatment change in SOST.
Dr. Sroufe’s groundbreaking theoretical and empirical contributions to the fields of developmental psychology and developmental psychopathology have been reported to the academic world in over 150 papers and journal articles and seven books.
During this three-hour virtual training, Dr. Sroufe discusses what he and his team of researchers learned about human development over the course of the longest-running (40-year) study of attachment across the lifespan and across generations (known as the Minnesota Study of Risk and Adaptation from Birth to Adulthood). This includes an overview of the findings of research into attachment theory and how individual selves emerge from relationships.
This workshop focuses on the practical application of a widely accepted theory of criminal conduct, the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model, to guide offender management and rehabilitation. The RNR principles are well-supported by empirical research and endorsed by many correctional organizations across North America and other parts of the world.
Professional helpers sometimes forget to help themselves! This two-hour training describes how they can build their own resilience in these stressful and uncertain times.
Participants learn about vicarious and secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and burnout. Using principles of trauma-informed care (trust and safety, choice, collaboration, empowerment, peer support, cultural and gender relevance), participants discover strategies for self-care, relaxation, personal exploration, and professional development.
There has been an increased awareness and focus on human trafficking within the United States in recent years, with individuals convicted of sex trafficking crimes often being classified as “sexual offenders” within the criminal justice system. However, very little is known about the psychological characteristics or criminogenic risk/need factors of this offender population. This session provides introductory training on domestic and international human trafficking, with a focus on sex trafficking of adults and children,