Webinars
MASOC is in the process of archiving NEARI PRESS Past Webinars. More webinars coming soon.
Please join our first policy webinar discussing legislative efforts to stop placing adolescents on the sex offender registry and allowing their names to be placed on a public website. The Webinar will be held on January 26 th at 2pm EST. To register in advance for this webinar click here.
For more information about the impact of adolescents on the registry, you can view our short summary of Registration Talking Points or dive deeper into this issue through our policy paper: Registration and Community Notification: Does including Adolescents Make Us Safer?
MACA and MASOC held a series of five free webinars to increase understanding about children (5-12) with problematic sexual behaviors and how to effectively intervene.
MASOC/MATSA with the help of ATSA hosted an online webinar featuring our 2020 conference keynote speakers, Shamus Khan and Jennifer Hirsch. CLICK HERE to listen to the insightful overview of their cutting edge reserach.
Description: This webinar explores risk factors and warning signs that will help professionals prevent sexual abuse before it happens. This includes warning signs and “protective factors” – those factors that mitigate risk for abuse. This webinar is targeted towards teachers, after-school staff, community educators, coaches, pediatricians, and other non-clinicians who work with youth.
Description: Youth who identify as LGBTQ+ are at risk for multiple adverse experiences and are overrepresented in the juvenile justice system. Further, when these youth demonstrate sexual behavior, either typical or concerning, they are often perceived as having problematic or illegal sexual behavior and then treated as if a risk to the safety of others and, thus, more likely to become involved in the juvenile justice system. This presentation will present current information on LGBTQ+ youth and juvenile justice and facilitate discussion to help professionals better serve these youth.
Description: This webinar will provide an overview of a recently published curriculum: “What’s Wrong with this Picture: the Impact of Viewing Pornography,” with specific focus on implications for treatment, education and activism. This overview will also describe what the research suggests as to the impact of men’s viewing pornography on their attitudes and behavior as it relates to gender relations, views of masculinity and femininity, sexual behavior; as well as the relationship between men’s viewing pornography and men’s likelihood to perpetrate other forms of gender-based violence.
Description: This webinar discusses what we do and don’t know about adolescents who sexually abuse. The presenters will turn a critical eye to research and practice and outline what adults can do to help prevent abuse from occurring.
Description: LATTICES is an innovative, step-by-step program for treating high-risk clients. It incorporates Risk-Need-Responsivity principles and offers experienced treatment providers a fresh approach. This webinar will introduce the underlying foundations of the LATTICES program and offer suggestions for implementation.
Webinar Description: This webinar explores how sex offender treatment providers can maximize juveniles’ participation in treatment by engaging them, and their families, in culturally-informed ways. Forging a strong therapeutic relationship with clients is the cornerstone of change. In an era of manualized treatment, the development and maintenance of a therapeutic bond is often overlooked and can lead to mixed or superficial engagement in treatment. Navigating these complex relationships requires openness, flexibility, and humility. Moreover, clinicians need to be prepared to deal effectively with the inevitable disruptions in these relationships.
Description: This webinar will introduce participants to the most recent research and theories related to individuals who commit online sexual offenses. Specific assessment tools for use in online sex offense cases will be introduced. The presenter will discuss concerns and issues related to risk assessment. Treatment issues identified for individual who commit online sexual offenses will be presented and creative treatment techniques for this population will be suggested.
Webinar Description: Most Western treatment programs for persons who have sexually offended are underpinned by the Andrews and Bonta Risk-Need-Responsivity model, which states that interventions are more likely to succeed when treatment intensity is matched to level of assessed risk and when individual criminogenic needs are targeted in a manner that appreciates client motivation, learning style and abilities, and other idiosyncratic elements. For more than 30 years, Peel Behavioural Services has provided community-based treatment and case management for persons with intellectual and other cognitive difficulties who have engaged in sexually inappropriate conduct. Passport to Independence is a collection of exercises focusing on the 10 life goals outlined in the popular Good Lives model. This book can either be used independently or as a group curriculum. A particular benefit of Passport to Independence is the manner in which the exercises were created. Together with our clients in treatment, we devised each exercise, practiced it in group and, with feedback from clients, made adjustments as suggested by our collective experience in order to ensure that the lessons made sense and were helpful to our clients in treatment. To our knowledge, no other currently available treatment curriculum was created with this much client involvement and subsequent buy-in.
Description: Within the area of sex offender treatment, there is a significant body of research and treatment information on males who have committed sexual offenses. Comparatively, the research on females who have committed sexual offenses is small but growing. Although there are many similarities between males and females who have sexually offended, differences are also evident and need to be acknowledged and addressed. This webinar provides an overview of the research that has been done on this unique population. Some of the differences between male and females who engage in sexual offending behavior will be discussed. In addition, the clinical needs of these girls and their therapeutic process will be explored.
Description: Children with problematic sexual behavior (PSB) are defined as youth ages 12 and younger who engage in behaviors involving sexual body parts (i.e., genitals, anus, buttocks, or breasts) that are developmentally inappropriate or potentially harmful to themselves (Chaffin et al., 2008). This presentation is designed for mental health professionals and will aim to increase participants’ understanding of clinical decision making among children with PSB and other co-occurring symptoms and diagnoses. We will focus on treatment decision making with a particular focus on prioritization of treatment needs among children presenting with co-occurring symptoms. Participants will be provided with information on treatment components from PSB-CBT designed to reduce or eliminate PSB in children and how these strategies can be effectively utilized within the context of therapy.
Description: This webinar will address the clinical assessment of children referred due to concerns about sexual behavior. Focus of the webinar will be on best practices for clinical assessment of children with concerning sexual behavior to inform treatment planning. Areas addressed include methods and topics when interviewing caregivers and children about sexual behaviors, structured assessment tools that can be used to supplement interview information that is gathered, additional information important to obtain that will help to inform clinical decision making, and tools to educate and intervene with families as needed in the moment.
Description: This webinar will address clinical assessment of children referred due to concerns about sexual behavior. Clinical assessments to inform intervention and treatment planning will be the focus and will address examining the behavior, level of concern and safety, areas of clinical concern and strengths, trauma history and impact, ecological factors, and treatment needs. Importance of case by case assessment for decision making, developmentally appropriate approach, and temporal factors impacting assessment will be reviewed.
Description: This webinar explores how sex offender treatment providers can maximize juveniles’ participation in treatment by engaging them, and their families, in culturally-informed ways. Forging a strong therapeutic relationship with clients is the cornerstone of change. In an era of manualized treatment, the development and maintenance of a therapeutic bond is often overlooked and can lead to mixed or superficial engagement in treatment. Moreover, support from youths’ families, along with other systems, can be essential for long-term change. This webinar will provide participants with a framework used to provide culturally-sensitive treatment.
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This guide, intended for therapists who work with youth who exhibit Sexually Problematic Behaviors (SPBs) and their families, is based on cutting-edge research regarding the most effective therapeutic interventions for treating youth with SPBs. Ideal for both new therapists establishing practice, as well as seasoned counselors engaging a new population, the guide is designed for therapists to feel more equipped to support families with youth who are struggling with SPBs, and includes practical activities for reducing SPBs, strengthening warm family interactions, and improving parents’ supervision and communication practices.
Assessment and safety planning, boundaries, feelings identification, distress tolerance, impulse control, cognitive distortions, family team building, sexuality, and extra family enrichment ideas are addressed. All activities in the book aim to support the family in building a common language to promote conversations that are safe, supportive, relationship-building, and “boundaryful.”
Description: In 2016 there were nearly 92 billion videos watched from 23 billion visits to sites. That means 64 million visitors a day and collectively 4.6 billion hours of porn watched in a year. This webinar examines what is known about the effect on sexuality, development and sexual behaviors particularly on children and youth. It also addresses some of the efforts underway to counter the harm from huge changes in the pornography industry, easy access to far more “hard-core” content and broader use at younger ages.
*Our September webinar is co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Adolescent Sex Offender Coalition (MASOC) and the Massachusetts Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (MATSA).
Description: Cultural competence is the ability to work effectively across cultural differences. This workshop introduces participants to the 5 essential domains of cultural competence and explains why they are so important in delivery of clinical and social service delivery.
Description: An indigenous approach to working in communities with Harmful Sexual Behavior. This discussion will explain some of the clinical Maori principals and applications in practice. We will also share some of the barriers that prevent indigenous therapies from being fully understood and our journey through navigating a way forward in the sexual violence treatment, intervention and prevention sector in New Zealand, what it means to be the only indigenous treatment center in New Zealand, and what indigenous clinical practice has to offer non-indigenous clients and practitioners.
Description: Since the 1980s, many in the sex abuse field have raised concerns that sexually abusive youth often emerge from treatment programs with a sophisticated knowledge of what NOT to do with their sexual feelings, but little if any knowledge about healthy sexual expression. Many feel unprepared to enter the world of romantic and sexual relationships. Some come to equate any sexual expression with deviant sexual expression. Others vow to put their sexuality away altogether.
Now, there is general agreement that best practice involves helping youth learn about healthy sexuality, not only stopping abusive sexual behavior. It requires teaching about sexual behaviors youth can engage in as replacement behaviors for abusive sexuality.
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This webinar offers creative ideas for using the 3-part “Who Am I…” workbook series in existing adult treatment programs. A brief summary of the workbooks will be offered followed by examples of using the workbooks content in an existing, structured program.
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Through the aboriginal practice of storytelling, with minimal lecturing, Gerry will explain the Native American concept of Óriginal Instructions” as it pertains to today’s healing practices. It is a practical application of Kierkegaard’s notion of living our life forward by understanding it backward. As we create more and more sophisticated technologies, there is a tendency to conclude there is no validity to any other culture, or period of time, in which healers believed and acted differently. Yet, ancient cultures healed each other in accord with long established best practices that flowed with the rhythms of their natural environment.
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The past 30 years have been witness to a multitude of watershed moments in understanding and responding to sexual violence. In Very Different Voices, Prescott and Wilson present a unique diversity in thinking and practice regarding challenges in good practice.
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The webinar will discuss the high prevalence of trauma among the clients in a variety of treatment programs. Patricia will discuss different strategies for programs to become more collaborative, more strength and relationship based, and focusing staff on interpreting behaviors as adaptive. However, after an initial change effort, agencies may experience their staff slipping back into punitive thinking. How do we continue trauma informed practice in a punitive world?
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This brief webinar will generally review and make suggestions for the use of workbooks in treatment with sexually abusive and sexually troubled youth, and overview the organization, content, structure, and use of the four Stages of Accomplishments workbooks. The webinar will be useful for those wishing to learn more about the use of workbooks, or the Stages workbooks in particular, and will include question-and-answer time.
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This webinar, in partnership with the Supreme Court of Ohio Judicial College, will provide a short overview of adults who have been convicted of sex offense. In this 1.5 hour webinar, David Prescott will offer an overview of the population, describe adult sex offender assessment, treatment and supervision, and take the time to cover some special topics such as the use of child sexual abuse images.
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Safe Offender Strategies (SOS) is a manualized sex offender treatment program emphasizing the importance of emotional, cognitive, interpersonal, and behavioral self-regulation. Participants in this brief webinar will learn about case conceptualization and treatment implementation using this approach. Empirical support from pilot research on psychiatric, intellectually/developmentally disabled, and SVP populations will be described.
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Few topics stir such intense emotional reactions as the prospect of reintegrating adults, adolescents, and children who have sexually abused back into their families and communities.Yet, the complicated realities of criminal justice, family law, and family dynamics mean that advocates and service providers across disciplines are frequently called upon to help mediate that process with few guidelines. This interactive workshop will present participants with tools, strategies, and insights to help enhance safety, cooperation, and positive outcomes for all involved.
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This webinar will offer a presentation on human sexuality and psychosexual development, and explore how professionals can integrate this material into efforts with families and communities to promote sexual health and safety and prevent child sexual abuse. Built around two foundational beliefs that 1) human sexuality components are woefully lacking in many child sexual abuse prevention initiatives, and 2) parents play a critical role in promoting the sexual health and safety of their children, in their home and in the community. This webinar will provide information and resources for professionals to apply to their work.
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This brief webinar will review the current status of juvenile sexual risk assessment, the processes by which we assess sexual risk in adolescents and children, the empirical basis of current risk assessment instruments, and the role of comprehensive psychosocial assessment in understanding risk for continued sexually troubled behavior. The webinar will also discuss current shifts in our thinking about risk assessment and its value in laying the groundwork for treatment.
The webinar serves an introduction for a series of four inter-related one-hour webinars presented by Phil Rich and hosted by NEARI, tentatively scheduled for May 10, 17 and 24, 2016. Please refer back to this page, as we will post additional details as these dates are finalized.
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This webinar explores motivation and goal-setting in working with people who have sexually abused. Research has shown that certain principles and techniques are more likely to produce positive outcomes with sexual abusers (e.g., Marshall, 2005). This webinar describes steps that professionals can take to explore and strengthen client motivation in treatment and offers ideas for getting some cases “un-stuck.” The webinar also includes a specific focus on the how and why of personal change.
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The “Consultinar” focuses on a complex clinical case presented by Jennifer Hixson, a practicing clinician with comments and questions from both David Prescott and the audience. This is a wonderful learning opportunity to discuss and learn from your colleagues about a difficult and complicated case.
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Yesterday’s porn is today’s mainstream media and today’s pornography is the main sex educator of our children and youth. This workshop discusses the differences in definitions and the research that shows impact. It also highlights the importance of framing this as a public health issue and actions that can be taken to counter any harm from pornography and the porn industry.
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Annual MASOC/MATSA
Joint Conference
Virtual Conference
April 12-13, 2023