Date: Thursday, October 12, 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. If you are seeking counseling credit, you must submit an evaluation with your name and email address.
Effective sex offense-specific treatment programs consider their participants’ risk for re-offense, the treatment needs that will mitigate this risk, and each individual client’s ability to respond to treatment. It is now standard practice to assess dynamic risk to improve the overall accuracy of risk assessments. This training will provide vital information about how treatment providers can help their clients understand and address their dynamic risk factors and manage their sexual impulses and arousal.
This training offers practical guidance for using treatment to change dynamic risk factors in ways that can significantly help to reduce risk for future offending. It focuses on developing positive “approach goals” that build protective skills and address deficits. It further explores integrating information from a dynamic risk assessment tool (the Violence Risk Scale: Sexual Offense Version) into treatment planning. Dr. Ballinger offers practical case examples that demonstrate how therapeutic factors and commonly used sex offense-specific treatment methods are relevant in addressing specific dynamic risk factors. Additionally, he presents practical suggestions for supplementing sex offense-specific treatment with skills-based therapeutic interventions, such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy, to address specific responsivity needs in addition to dynamic risk factors. Finally, this training provides information on how clinicians can remain sex-positive (a non-judgmental attitude towards consensual sexual activities) and help clients to manage their sexual impulses and arousal.
Topics include:
1) Therapeutic interventions that specifically target relevant dynamic risk factors/treatment needs.
2) Applying information from risk assessments in selecting specific therapeutic interventions.
3) Providing an empirically informed level of treatment intensity/dosage for each client.
4) Review interventions available to clinicians working with clients with problematic sexual behavior.
5) Using adjunctive clinical interventions into sexual offense-specific treatment as a means of improving each client’s wellbeing and responsiveness to treatment.
As a result of attending this training, participants will be better able to:
1) Select therapeutic interventions that specifically target relevant dynamic risk factors/treatment needs.
2) Apply information from risk assessments in selecting specific therapeutic interventions.
3) Demonstrate an empirically-informed level of treatment intensity/dosage for each client.
4) Describe a broad range of interventions available to clinicians working with clients with problematic sexual behavior.
5) Integrate effective adjunctive clinical interventions into sex offense specific treatment as a means of improving each client’s wellbeing and responsiveness to treatment.
6) Describe several techniques for helping clients to manage their sexual impulses and arousal.
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. If you are seeking counseling credit, you must submit an evaluation with your 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.
The Fundamentals of Sex Offense-Specific Treatment has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Continuing Excellence, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. SP-4351.
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
Bud Ballinger, PhD
Director of Treatment Services, NYS Secure Treatment and Rehabilitation Center
Bud Ballinger is a clinical/forensic psychologist and the Director of Treatment Services for NYS Secure Treatment and Rehabilitation Center (New York’s civil confinement program). He has a passion for enhancing therapeutic work with people who have engaged in harmful sexual behavior. Since earning a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Texas Tech University in 2000 he has worked in inpatient, outpatient, correctional, and civil confinement programs providing treatment, supervision, consultation, evaluation, and courtroom testimony. He developed New York’s treatment program for incarcerated people who are likely candidates for civil confinement. He is the president of NYS ATSA and an ATSA Fellow.
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 not have published materials related to the training from which they may benefit financially.