Current Perspectives: Working with Sexually Aggressive Youth and Youth with Sexual Behavior Problems
Book Description
Current Perspectives represents the best thinking and practice from leaders and front-line workers who assess and treat sexually aggressive and abusive adolescents and young people with sexual behavior problems. With chapters ranging from considerations of diversity to ethics and developing integrity, from developmental concerns in pre-pubertal clients to girls with sexually abusive behaviors, from research on resilience to an examination of attachment styles, from drama therapy to neurological impacts, Current Perspectives is the best one-volume compendium available. Every juvenile treatment program should make this rich resource available for its administrators, clinicians, protective service workers, and professionals working in the juvenile justice system.
NOTE: Purchasing Continuing Education Credits for this book does not provide a copy of the book, itself, which can be purchased from NEARI Press at: http://bookstore.nearipress.org/index.php/current-perspectives-working-with-sexually-aggressive-youth-and-youth-with-sexual-behavior-problems.html
Editor Biographies
Robert E. Longo, LPC, NCC is Director of Clinical Training, and Director of the Stress Reduction Clinic & Biofeedback Lab at Old Vineyard Behavioral Health Services; Winston-Salem, NC; a private for profit psychiatric hospital treating male and female adolescents, sexually abusive males, and both a child and adolescent acute care unit and an adult acute care unit.
David Prescott, MPA serves as Director of Professional Development and as a Clinical Director for the Becket Family of Services. Devoted to building healthy lives and safe communities, he has produced 14 book projects and numerous articles and chapters in the areas of assessing and treating sexual violence and trauma. Mr. Prescott is a current Fellow and past President of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, the largest professional organization of its kind in the world. He is also the 2014 recipient of that organization’s Distinguished Contribution award, one of only a handful of recipients. Previously, he received the Bright Lights award from the National Adolescent Perpetration Network in 2007. He is a Certified Trainer for the International Center for Clinical Excellence and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. He has lectured around the world, including most recently in Australia, Japan, Germany, Iceland, Poland, Romania, Canada, and the U.K. He also serves on the editorial boards of three scholarly journals, Motivational Interviewing: Training, Research, Implementation, and Practice, the Journal of Sexual Aggression, and Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment.
Learning Objectives
This training is designed to help you:
- Describe the continuum levels of care and its effectiveness in rehabilitating sexually abusive youth
- Utilize a holistic, bio-psycho-social informed approach when assessing, treating, and managing risk of youth with sexual behavior problems
- Discuss and critically consider major areas concerning child and adolescent development, theories of juvenile delinquency, and developmental pathways to sexual aggression
- Describe the importance of attachment styles and engaging families in treatment with youth who have caused sexual harm
