Date: December 18, 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET /
8:00 am – 10:00 am PT
Format:   Live interactive training offered via Zoom

Presented by: Steven Sawyer, MSSW, LICSW, ATSA-F (See Bio)

You must attend the entire live training and complete an evaluation to be eligible for CE credits. If you seek only psychology credits, the evaluation is optional, and you can remain anonymous.

Online Training Description:

Client self-disclosure of personal history is essential to assessment, treatment, and the development of effective plans for preventing further harm to others. Steven Sawyer, MSSW, LICSW, ATSA-F developed this training to offer methods for helping clients to explore their life experiences, including the use of a structured workbook called Your Personal History.

Throughout the training, Sawyer demonstrates how client disclosure provides insights into various areas, including:

• Strengths and personal resources
• Attachment style and patterns of relating
• Openness to treatment, change, and self-reflection
• Family of origin and developmental history
• Relationships and social history
• Mental health concerns and trauma history
• Personality traits and personal assessments
• Sexual history and related concerns

The session further provides an overview of the workbook’s purpose, content, and practical application. It illustrates how collecting personal histories using tools such as Your Personal History serves as both a data collection procedure for intake or assessment and a series of pretreatment exercises to build treatment readiness and enhance self-reflection.

Participants gain a thorough understanding of how to integrate collecting personal histories and the workbook into their clinical practice, ultimately supporting positive outcomes in the therapeutic process.

As a result of this training, participants will be able to:

1) Facilitate client self-disclosure in the treatment of sexual aggression
2) Collect data for comprehensive assessments using a personal history workbook
3) Employ personal history information in preparation for abuse-specific treatment
4) Incorporate a client’s history into pre-treatment self-assessment of personal strengths, attachment style, openness to treatment change

Interactive Follow-Up Meeting

Attendees are invited to join an open discussion 15 minutes following the end of the training, where you can engage with fellow attendees by turning on your camera and microphone. This is an opportunity to share your experiences and contribute to a meaningful exchange of ideas. Time will be allocated to address questions or insights from the training. Please note that attendance is optional and will not affect your eligibility for a training certificate.

We can refund your training fee up to 24 hours prior to the start of the training.

To view all training details and review our list of frequently asked questions, please click here to visit the promotional page.