Stressors and Motivators Among Professionals Treating Clients Who Have Sexually Abused: Key Findings from the 2025 Survey
David S. Prescott, Stacey Zolondek Ginesin, & Sarah Snow HaskellClick here to download the free PDF. Don’t miss the free webinar discussion where we discuss …
Understanding Child Sexual Grooming – Part 3: Empowering Prevention and Collaborative Responses
In the first part of this blog series on child sexual grooming, we focused on uncovering and dispelling myths surrounding grooming, highlighting the ways families …
Improving Solution-Focused Techniques in Suicide Prevention: A Dialogue with Emma Burns and John Henden
In this webinar discussion, author Emma Burns and psychotherapist John Henden share their insights from their work using SFT with individuals experiencing suicidality. Through personal stories and real-world examples, they highlight how practical SFT techniques can foster meaningful engagement, even in moments of crisis. Burns and Henden explore how SFT’s goal-directed and collaborative approach helps clients generate their own paths toward safety and wellbeing, and how practitioners can use these strategies in clinical practice. Finally, they discuss the importance of hope and optimism in suicide prevention.
Identifying Above-Average Risk Clients Who Are More Likely to Succeed in the Community
This webinar focuses on Dr. Sandler’s newest research findings regarding the factors that predict which above-average risk individuals would likely succeed in the community on a supervision and treatment order.
Ethical Decision-Making in Treating Adolescents with Harmful Sexual Behaviors
In this training, Ms. Pryor explores the ethical tensions that arise between treatment providers and the criminal justice system—each with their own goals and approaches. She discusses strategies for aligning therapeutic interventions with both legal requirements and ethical standards, and reviews relevant ethical codes to support effective and principled clinical decision-making.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Supporting Survivors Through Effective Intervention with Those Who Cause Harm
As October approaches and we prepare for this year’s annual Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM), the theme “With Survivors, Always” calls on us to display unwavering solidarity with those who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). This commitment to safety, support, and solidarity is vital. A recent training on the CARE Method for treating those responsible for domestic violence suggests something else we need to bear in mind: We cannot fully support the victims of IPV without also effectively treating those who caused the harm. As CARE Method founder Nil Buckley emphasized throughout her training, “If we’re not doing treatment for offenders effectively, we’re not reducing recidivism, and we are not increasing victim safety.”