Stopping Sexual Abuse Through Intervention with Sexually Abusive Youth

by Steven M. Bengis, Ed.D., L.C.S.W.
Continuing Education Credits: 4
Duration: 4-5 hours

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Description
This introductory online course covers how best to identify and intervene with youth who exhibit sexually abusive behaviors—to prevent them from hurting any other victims. Take this course if you want an overview of how sex-abuse-specific assessment, case management and treatment can help give a teenager the opportunity to live an abuse-free life.

Workshop Objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Use evidence-based principles to explain sex-abuse-specific management, assessment and treatment of youth.
• Differentiate management, assessment and treatment of sex offending adults from that of youth.
• Examine some of the myths that prevent appropriate management, assessment and treatment of these youth.
• Explore appropriate management, assessment, and treatment, including the importance of integrating the latest findings in related fields (e.g., neuroscience, trauma, and attachment).

About the Author(s)
Steven M. Bengis, Ed.D., L.C.S.W., is a nationally recognized trainer in the adolescent sex abuse-specific field. He has offered workshops and keynoted conferences nationally and internationally. He is a former member of the National Task Force on Juvenile Sexual Offending and President of the Massachusetts Adolescent Sexual Offender Coalition, Inc. He is author of several articles and book chapters and a monograph entitled: "A Comprehensive Service Delivery System with a Continuum of Care for Adolescent Sexual Offenders," published by Safer Society Press. Together with his wife, Penny Cuninggim, Ed.D., he founded and directs the New England Adolescent Research Institute, Inc. (NEARI) in Holyoke, MA. NEARI administers a day school that provides special education services to emotionally disturbed, developmentally delayed, learning disabled and behaviorally disordered youth, an early intervention program, "Jumpstart," for at-risk youth, the NEARI Press, a publishing house specializing in education and intervention with "at-risk youth," and a training and consulting center. Dr. Bengis holds a doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Massachusetts and has worked as a therapist both privately and in outpatient, residential, and school settings.

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