How to Effectively Supervise Professionals Treating Individuals Who Perpetrate Sexual Violence

Date: Thursday, April 27th, 2023
Time: 11:00 am – 3:30 pm ET
Format: Live interactive training offered via Zoom
Hosted by: Katherine Gotch, LPC, CCSOT, ATSA-F

Credit: 4 CE Credit Hours
Cost of training and CE certificate: $120.00
CE Eligibility: APA Psychology, NBCC Counseling, ASWB Social Work

To be eligible for a certificate, you must attend the entire live training and complete an evaluation form within 24 hours following the live event.


This training introduces the Integrated Developmental Model, a relationship-based approach to supervising professionals who work with individuals who have been sexually violent. Participants will learn how to enhance the professional development of new clinicians they supervise while educating them on the importance of self-care for clinicians who work in the stressful environment of sexual abuse prevention and the treatment of sexual violence perpetrators. The training will also explore the ways in which power and privilege impact the supervisory context, and how supervisors can identify their own vulnerabilities and concerns.

Topics to be covered include:
1) The Integrated Developmental Model, a relationship-based approach to clinical supervision
2) How the disposition of the supervisor influences supervision 
3) A relationship-based approach to clinical supervision 
4) Analyzing the roles of power and privilege in supervision
5) How to facilitate therapist self-care

As a result of participating in this training, participants will be better able to:
1) Describe their own vulnerabilities and agency in protecting against ethical boundary violations.
2) Explain common pitfalls in supervising new therapists working with individuals with histories of sexual abuse.
3) Apply specific steps to optimize the supervisory relationship for therapist’s working with individuals with histories of sexual abuse.
4) Demonstrate ways to facilitate self-care, education, and skills development for new therapists working with individuals who have sexually abused.
5) Identify signs of boundary concerns with supervisees

Four Hours of Training

The training session starts at 11:00 am Eastern Time and runs until 3:30 pm. The charge is $120. Each registration includes a certificate, whether it be for CE credits hours or for attendance. To be eligible for a certificate, you must attend the entire live training and complete an evaluation form within 24 hours following the live event.

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.

How to Effectively Supervise Professionals Treating Individuals Who Perpetrate Sexual Violence has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Continuing Excellence, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. SP-4073.

How to Effectively Supervise Professionals Treating Individuals Who Perpetrate Sexual Violence, #4558, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Continuing Excellence LLC. as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 11/02/2022 – 11/02/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 4 Clinical continuing education credits.

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


Paul Hoard, PhD, LMHC
Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology, The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology

Dr. Hoard is a licensed mental health counselor with a PhD in counselor education and supervision from Regent University where he conducted his dissertation research on juveniles with sexual behavior problems. He is a member of ATSA and has received specialized training in working with adolescents with sexual behavior problems. Dr. Hoard is an approved clinical supervisor and has conducted research and provided mental health counseling as well as clinical supervision in the USA, Ukraine, and Turkey. He served on the State of Kansas Multi-Disciplinary Team, responsible for evaluating potential sexually violent predators. Currently, he is an assistant professor of counseling psychology at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology where he also provides counseling and clinical supervision. Dr. Hoard has presented at conferences internationally on the topics of maladaptive sexual behavior, clinical supervision, and mental health counseling.


Seth Wescott, LMLP
Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Rockhurst University and Adjunct Professor of Counseling at Mid-America Nazarene University

Seth Wescott is a Licensed Master’s Level Psychologist and has been working with individuals with problematic sexual behaviors since 2002. He has worked in maximum security prisons for both adults and adolescents as well as various community-based settings. In private practice, Mr. Wescott conducts pre-disposition and pre-adjudication psychosexual evaluations of adults and adolescents. He serves as Co-chair of the ATSA Public Policy Committee, and is a member of the ATSA Adult Clinical Practice Committee. He is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Rockhurst University, and an Adjunct Professor of Counseling at Mid-America Nazarene University.


Additional Information

Audience
This training is for professionals working with people who have experienced complex trauma as well as people who have perpetrated abuse. Professionals who will benefit from this training include social workers, psychologists, clinical counselors, and interested paraprofessionals.

Content Level
Intermediate / Advanced

Disclosure
The presenters do not have published materials related to the training from which they may benefit financially.

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