ATSA Practice Guidelines for Adolescents: Implications for Current Practice
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Training Description
This session provides a brief review of the historical response to adolescent sexual offending and how the vestiges of adult policy and practice continue to impact the adolescent field. The recently released ATSA Practice Guidelines for Adolescents will be utilized in describing an empirically grounded, caregiver-involved, developmentally appropriate approach for addressing abusive sexual behavior with adolescents. This will include the following:
• Unique features of the adolescent population
• Empirical Framework/Foundational Points for practice
• Fundamental aspects of effective policy and practice
• Characteristics of effective treatment interventions
• Treatment targets/modalities
This 1.5 hour workshop will seek to leverage the ATSA’s Practice Guidelines for Adolescents as the “gold standard” in the field, and as a means of providing leadership and guidance to the ongoing evolution of the adolescent field. Participants will be able to identify future goals regarding the use of an empirically supported framework to inform policy, program development, and clinical practice.
The goal of this presentation is for participants to identify broad principles and factors associated with evidence-based policy and practice for adolescents who have engaged in sexually abusive behavior.
Trainer Biographies
Tom Leversee, LCSW, worked for 35 years in clinical and administrative positions in the Colorado Division of Youth Corrections (DYC). He retired from DYC in 2008 and currently is an adjunct professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work. Tom also has a private practice that includes providing consultation, training, and clinical services for at risk youth. His numerous publications include co-editing/authoring Juvenile Sexual Offending: Causes, Consequences, and Corrections, 3rd edition, (Jossey-Bass Publishers) with Gail Ryan and Sandy Lane. Tom is a member of the Colorado State Sex Offender Management Board and the ATSA Board of Directors. Tom was presented with the National Adolescent Perpetration Network’s “Pioneer Award” in 2005 for his “21 years of unique contributions to prevent perpetration of sexual abuse”. Tom was also presented with the 2010 Gary Burgin Leadership Award by the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board.
Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky, LCSW, has worked for the Division of Criminal Justice within the Colorado Department of Public Safety as the Program Manager for the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board since 2006, where he is responsible for overseeing the development of standards for the treatment and management of sexual offenders, approving treatment providers, and providing legislative and policy input. Mr. Lobanov-Rostovsky holds a Master Degree in Social Work from the University of Michigan, and has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) since 1990. Prior to his current position, Mr. Lobanov-Rostovsky worked as a clinician and evaluator adult sex offenders and juveniles who commit sexual offenses. Mr. Lobanov-Rostovsky also works as a private consultant for a variety of federal, state, tribal, and private agencies in developing and enhancing sex offender management services, including providing training and technical assistance, program assessment, literature reviews, peer review of grant solicitations and reports, and legislative and policy development. More specifically, Mr. Lobanov-Rostovsky has worked since 2009 with the National Criminal Justice Training Center at Fox Valley Technical College as a consultant on the implementation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) for tribal jurisdictions, and has overseen the Native American Sex Offender Management (NASOM) project to identify the research support for needed sex offender treatment, management, and reentry services. Mr. Lobanov-Rostovsky has also been co-project consultant lead for the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) on the Sex Offender Management Assessment and Planning Initiative (SOMAPI) to identify research supported sex offender management and treatment practices. Finally, Mr. Lobanov-Rostovsky has published a number of articles and chapters related to federal and state sex offender management public policy.
Learning Objectives
This training is designed to help you:
- Understand how adult policy and practice have impacted treatment and supervision with adolescents
- Identify and describe the key components of an empirical framework for the assessment and treatment of adolescents who have engaged in sexually abusive behavior
- Identify the factors that characterize effective interventions with adolescents who have engaged in sexually abusive behavior
- Identify and describe evidence-based treatment modalities for addressing adolescents who have engaged in sexually abusive behavior
- Identify specific examples of the application of an empirically supported framework to inform policy, program development, and clinical practice
