Adolescent Sexual Misconduct from a Trauma-Informed Lens

Course Description

Continuing Education Hours: 9.5

This course will focus on working with adolescents that act out sexually and how to approach work from a self-regulation and trauma-informed approach. Practitioners will discover ways to regulate themselves and to understand the need to take a different approach to treatment and support that is strength and growth based. The training will introduce models (including the good lives model and attachment based work) that support longer terms of change and are based in research.

Learning Objectives

  • Participants will be able to understand sexualized misconduct from a trauma informed lens.
  • Participants will be able to understand ways of working with adolescents that target self-regulation.
  • Participants will be able to understand why this type of trauma response can be more treatment resistant.
  • Participants will be able to learn how to stay regulated when working with this client group.
  • Participants will be able to learn self-regulation activities and interventions that can be used with this client group.
  • Participants will be able to understand the importance of psychoeducation for this group and draft useable scripts for adolescents and their families.

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