Treatment Strategies for Sexually Abused Children

OUTLINE

 

8:20 to 10:00              I:         Statistics Re:  Child Sexual Abuse & Sexual Offenders

                                    II:        Normal Sexual Behaviors of Children

                                    III:      Sexual Concerns With Children’s Sexual Behaviors

                                                a.  Boundaries

                                                b.  Exhibitionism

                                                c.  Self-Stimulation

                                                d.  Sexual Intrusiveness

 

10:00 to 10:10                        Break

 

10:10 to 11:40                        IV:       Sexual Behaviors Between Children

                                                a.  Five Criteria For Assessing Sexual Play

                                                b.  Helping Parents Respond to Child Sexual Behavior

                                    V:        Sexual Reactivity

                                    VI:       Adolescent Sex Offenders (ASO’s)

                                                a.  Traits of ASO’s

                                                b.  Treatment Components With ASO’s

 

11:40 to 12:30                        Lunch

 

12:30 to 2:00              VII:     Assessing Trauma in the Sexual Abuse Victim

                                                a.  Eight Criteria Used in Assessing Trauma

                                                b.  How Trauma Affects Brain Functioning

        VIII:    Coping Skills of Sexual Abuse Victims

        IX:       Self Injury

                    a.  Types of Self Injury

                    b.  Interventions For Self Injury

                                    X:        Impact of Sexual Abuse on Self Esteem & Self Worth

                                                a.  Three Assessment Tools

                                                b.  Confirmations/Empowerment

 

2:00 to 2:10                Break

 

2:10 to 3:30                XI:       Educating Kids & Parents About Sexual Abuse

                                                a.  Touching

                                                b.  Good vs. Yucky Secrets

                                                c.  Creating Safety Plans

                                                d.  Disclosing Abuse

 

Goal:               Participants will learn how to identify and assess sexual behaviors in

                        children, and how to provide psychotherapeutic services to children

                        who self-injure and have been sexually abused.

 

Objectives:     1.  Participants will learn how to use five criteria to assess sexual

                              behavior in children.

 

                        2.  Participants will learn how to assess sexual reactivity in children

                              and assess children who molest.

 

                        3.  Participants will learn how to provide psychotherapeutic services

                              with clients who self-injure.

 

                        4.  Participants will learn how to develop safety plans for children and

                              create techniques for encouraging sexual abuse awareness.

 

Methods:        Lecture, handouts, power point presentation, case presentation, case

                        discussion.

 

Presenter:     Laura Ellsworth, MA LMHC is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor

                        with 20 years of experience and the author of “Choosing To Heal”. 

                        She is in private practice in Evansville, Indiana and is a Professor of

                        Clinical Psychology at the University of Southern Indiana.  She has

                        developed and facilitated programs that aid in the treatment of

                        child sexual abuse victims and has experience educating a wide range

                        of professionals including mental health, healthcare and education

                        professionals.  Her therapeutic work with this area has also included

                        groups which focus on specific areas of child sexual abuse.  Laura has

                        hosted a live weekly mental health program with ABC-TV affiliate

                        WEVV.  She has also provided scores of television, radio and

                        newspaper interviews and is a frequent expert witness in sexual abuse

                        trial proceedings.

 

Click here for presenter resume.

 

April 7, 2011 - Louisville, KY

April 8, 2011 - Indianapolis, IN

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