Date: Thursday, November 9, 2023
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (ET) /
7:00 am – 2:00 pm (PT)
Format: Live interactive training offered via Zoom
Hosted by: David Prescott, LICSW, ATSA-F
Credit: 6 CE Credit Hours
Cost of training and CE certificate: $180.00
CE Eligibility: Psychology and Counseling
This event is part of a collection of upcoming trainings on the topic of assessing and treating adults who have sexually abused. Click here to learn more!
You must attend the entire live training to be eligible for CE credits. If you seek only psychology credits, the evaluation is optional, and you can remain anonymous. Counselors seeking credit from other professional disciplines must submit an evaluation with their name and email address.
This training provides practical information on two components that often go unexamined: sensible approaches to community management and how to work with clients with special needs.
The first half of this training summarizes and provides information on effective approaches to the community management of sexual violence risk, with a focus on the most current approaches. Policymakers have historically attempted to manage risk by instituting measures of official control, such as sex offender registries, GPS monitoring, and residency restrictions. However, the scientific literature suggests that such measures often don’t accomplish their intended goal. This training will explore the strengths and weaknesses of the available approaches and describe the core components of effective management.
The second half of this training explores the challenges in working with clients who have special needs. It explores how the principles of risk, need, and responsivity apply to this clientele. It offers an overview of methods for assessing risk and need, and strategies for adapting treatment to special-needs clients, including the use of applied behavioral analysis. It concludes with discussion of balancing the needs and rights of clients and the community.
Topics Include:
1) The core components of effective community supervision
2) How historical approaches have gone wrong
3) Current models of community supervision
4) Applying the principles of risk, need, and responsivity with special-needs clients
5) Identifying what’s missing in helping clients respond to treatment
6) Balancing risks and rights with clients and the community
As a result of this training, participants will be better able to:
1) Critique historical approaches to manage risk in the community.
2) Describe current models for community management of persons who have sexually offended.
3) Explain core components of effective community supervision.
4) Critique measures of assessing risk and need in clients with special needs.
5) Describe an applied behavioral analytic approach to clients with special needs.
6) Explain how traditional approaches often don’t adhere to the responsivity principle of effective correctional treatment.
Six Hours of Training
The training session starts at 10:00 am Eastern Time and runs until 5:00 pm. The charge is $180. Each registration includes a certificate, whether it be for CE credits hours or for attendance. You must attend the entire live training to be eligible for CE credits. If you seek only psychology credits, the evaluation is optional, and you can remain anonymous. Counselors seeking credit from other professional disciplines must submit an evaluation with their name and email address.
We can refund your training fee up to 24 hours prior to the start of the training.
Continuing Education Credit Hours
Continuing Excellence, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Continuing Excellence, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Community Management of People Who Have Sexually Abused and the Challenges of Working with Special-Needs Clients has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Continuing Excellence, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. SP-4356.
This program is co-sponsored by Safer Society Press and Continuing Excellence, LLC
Continuing Excellence, LLC
P.O. Box 134, East Middlebury, VT 05740
Tel: (802) 771-4155
Info@ContinuingExcellence.com
www.ContinuingExcellence.com
Robin Wilson, PhD, ABPP
Wilson Psychology Services LLC, McMaster University
Robin J. Wilson, Ph.D., ABPP is a board-certified clinical psychologist with more than 37 years of experience in sexual violence prevention. He has worked in hospital, correctional, academic, and private practice settings and maintains an international clinical and consulting practice based in Sarasota, FL. Robin is an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His current research and practice interests center on models of community reintegration following long periods of incarceration or inpatient hospitalization.
Additional Information
Audience
This training is for professionals working with people who have perpetrated abuse. Professionals who will benefit from this training include social workers, psychologists, clinical counselors, and interested paraprofessionals.
Content Level
Introductory to Intermediate
Disclosure
The presenter does have published materials related to the training from which they may benefit financially.