Book Description
This comprehensive volume brings together the expertise of leading practitioners, researchers, and policy makers to prevent sexual violence. Through a progression of 30 chapters, the Sourcebook provides practical approaches to prevention and describes the underlying frameworks that support each approach. The Sourcebook begins by introducing cutting edge prevention approaches along with a broad sampling of nationally recognized programs to illustrate the power of well designed prevention efforts. To foster the development of innovative new prevention programs, a section of the Sourcebook is dedicated to “how to” oriented approaches. The Sourcebook concludes with an examination of the role of cultural issues in the prevention of sexual violence and offers insights for influencing local and national policy change. Chapters cover the spectrum of topics from internet safety, influencing public policy, and addressing sex offender notification practices, to creating effective prevention programming for children and teens, organizations, adults in the community, and young adults on college campuses. This Sourcebook is an essential tool for any professional who wants to incorporate the prevention of sexual violence into their practice or enhance the quality of existing services.
Editor Biography
Keith Kaufman, PhD has more than 25 years of experience in the sexual violence prevention field. He is the past President of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) and has served on numerous state and national prevention commit- tees addressing policy, research, and practice. Dr. Kaufman has received federal and local funding to support much of his published research, which has focused on the identification of adult and juvenile perpetrators’ patterns of sexual offending as a foundation for prevention programming and offender treatment. He is a recipient of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Gould-Wysinger Award for research excellence. Dr. Kaufman is a frequent speaker and provides training and consultation in the areas of program development and evaluation. He is currently developing a comprehensive psycho-educational treatment program for all juvenile sex offenders in the custody of the Oregon Youth Authority and previously created a juvenile sex offender treatment curriculum for the State of Ohio’s Department of Youth Services.
Learning Objectives
This training is designed to help you:
- Identify cutting edge prevention approaches and a broad sampling of nationally recognized programs to illustrate the power of well-designed prevention efforts
- Discuss and critically consider risk factors related to sexual violence and effective evidence-based prevention strategies
- Create effective prevention programing for children and teens, organizations, adults in the community, and young adults on college campuses
- Identify the role of cultural issues in the prevention of sexual violence and apply insights for influencing local and national policy change