Working with Families After Sexual Abuse Has Occurred
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Decades of science and practice have shown that sexual abuse within families cannot be addressed effectively by any single discipline.
Working with families in which sexual abuse has occurred can require expertise in many areas, including understanding the effects of abuse on those who are victimized as well as other family members. It also requires that we understand the elements of the adolescent’s life that led him or her to abuse. As well, professionals need to understand the factors that may contribute to further abuse if there is no intervention as well as the factors that can help to prevent it from happening again.
This workshop addresses the issue of adolescents sexually abusing others in their family and the systemic collaboration necessary to work with families after sexual harm has occurred. It focuses on areas such as client responsibility, family therapy, and how to conduct family reunification.
Topics to be covered include:
- Inter-agency and inter-disciplinary collaboration in working with families
- Ensuring victim safety
- Family work with adolescents who have sexually abused
- Strategies for family reunification
- Common issues that occur within family work
1) Explain the importance of (and barriers to) collaboration between victim-serving agencies and those providing services to the adolescent who caused harm.
2) Determine how to initiate services to increase victim safety.
3) Describe the importance of family work with adolescents who have caused sexual harm (in addition to other interventions).
4) Design interventions to ameliorate the impact of abuse on the family.
5) Identify strategies for individualized family reunification.
6) Summarize specific interventions for common circumstances in family work.
Audience
This training is for professionals working with people who have who have perpetrated abuse. Professionals who will benefit from this training include social workers, psychologists, clinical counselors, and interested paraprofessionals.
Content Level
Disclosure
Continuing Education Approval
American Psychological Association (APA)
Safer Society Foundation, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Safer Society Foundation, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Working with Families After Sexual Abuse Has Occurred, Course #5490, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Safer Society Foundation, Inc. as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 12/08/2023 – 12/08/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 4 clinical continuing education credits.
Who's Presenting
Tyffani Monford, PsyD
Dr. Tyffani Monford is a licensed psychologist. She has served as a consultant and trainer under various federal and state grants. In addition, Dr. Monford has been appointed to various state and county committees focused on those within the juvenile justice system. Dr. Monford provides mental health trainings and has served as a panelist at conferences focused on culturally informed mental health services, gender-responsive treatment, the school-to-prison pipeline and black girls, educating black girls in white spaces, intersectionality and social justice work throughout the United States. She has been featured on local and national news programs addressing the importance of emotional wellness in Black communities, mental health in times of national crisis, and the school-to-prison pipeline’s impact on Black Girls.
Dr. Monford is the Owner of Monford Dent Consulting & Psychological Services, LLC through which she provides ongoing mental health consultation and assessments. In 2020, she co-founded Centering Sisters, LLC, an organization dedicated to projects that center the needs of Black Women, Girls, and Femmes.
Dr. Monford is the author of three books: Girls Got Issues: A Woman’s Guide to Self-discovery & Healing, You Got This! A Girl’s Guide to Growing Up, and Black Girl: Unapologetically and the co-author of two others: Becoming Who I Want to Be: A Good Lives Workbook for Young Women and its accompanying Counselor’s Edition. Dr. Monford’s primary area of interests are sexual violence prevention and intervention on the continuum, the role of intersectionality in the lives of Black and Brown girls/women, and culturally informed work with those within the juvenile justice and educational systems.