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Download the brochure from the homepage, or to receive a brochure by mail, e-mail dnolden@dcs.wisc.edu. Workshop DescriptionsPre-Conference Institutes (Wednesday, March 26, 2008) Thursday, March 27, 2008 Friday, March 28, 2008 Pre-Conference InstitutesWednesday, March 26, 2008
*Lunch is on your own each day. Dining options are: Mez Restaurant (1st floor of Marriott). The Underground Shops offer a variety of eateries (enter from the Marriott Lobby) located within easy walking distance from the conference location. Institute descriptions:The following day-long institutes offer more intensive learning experiences. Choose to attend one institute for the day. 1. Integrating Directive and
Nondirective Approaches in
Treating Traumatized Children:
One size does not fit all This workshop discusses the rationale for expanding one’s clinical repertoire to adjust to the child’s needs. We review the evidence-based practices for children, discuss best practices, and explore a range of directive and nondirective strategies, including play therapy, that build the therapy relationship, encourage children’s expression, and intervene with problems and concerns. A variety of case illustrations are presented. 2.
Creative Interventions for Sexually
Abused and Traumatized Children Learn assessment and treatment
strategies to use in individual
or group therapy with preschool,
latency, and adolescents. A trauma
assessment model, including play
therapy techniques, will be demonstrated.
Offender enticement strategies,
family and community support,
post-disclosure response, and 3.
Understanding and Treating
Self-Injurious Clients Explore the meaning and purposes
of self-injury and the cultural, familial,
and biological causes. Learn techniques
to help clients endure uncomfortable 4.
Sibling Incest—Assessment
and Treatment Become familiar with the literature and clinical features. Topics include: separation of victim and offender, joint interviews with victim and offender, and roles of key providers (police, protective services, probation, mental health). Case examples show how to address safety issues, loyalty, engagement, and minimizing. 5.
Relational Approaches to
Healing Attachment-Based
Complex Trauma in Adults Understand the dimensions of complex trauma and the criteria for the diagnostic conceptualization of Complex PTSD by using an attachment framework. You learn several relational and attachmentbased interventions to use with your clients. Specific transference and countertransference issues and enactments are discussed. Case material is woven throughout the presentation. 6.
Treating Sex Offenders:
Process and content This institute focuses on therapist/ sex offender client interactions including techniques for working with offenders. It addresses denial, Socratic questioning, attitude change techniques, modeling, and challenge and confrontation. It also looks at schema-based therapy, cognitive self-change, and other therapeutic curricula. An emphasis is on the difference between treating sex offenders and other clients. 7.
Principles of Trauma
Therapy: An integrated model Drawing upon his new (2006) book
with Catherine Scott (Principles
of Trauma Therapy: A Guide to
Symptoms, Evaluation, and
Treatment, Sage Publications),
Dr. Briere presents new material
on the philosophy of trauma and
treatment, titrated emotional
processing of traumatic memory, Eastern Conference on Child Sexual Abuse TreatmentThursday, March 27, 2008
Plenary Session:9:00-10:00 amChildren’s Voices, Children’s
Hearts: The challenge of
listening, feeling, and connecting Workshop descriptions:10:30-12:00 pm Workshops 8-14: 8.
Sex Offender Supervision Learn about present tense investigation
reports, interview techniques,
risk assessment, and supervision
techniques, including developing
and using a community supervision
network. Studies suggest that mindfulness training can improve psychological and physical health. Learn the history and philosophy of mindfulness as it relates to trauma. Learn how to integrate therapeutic meditation into therapy. Effects on identity, affect regulation, and anxiety control are emphasized. 10. How Mothers of Sexually Abused
Children Learn About and Come
to Believe the Abuse Using data from 125 non-abusive mothers, Dr. Plummer explores how mothers learn of the abuse, what they do when they suspect it, and actions taken to learn the truth. Knowing how discovery operates enables us to help mothers know what evidence to trust, what actions to take, and how to protect their children. 11.
Understanding and Treating
Self-Injurious Clients Understand the meanings and purposes
of self-injury and the cultural,
familial, and biological causes. Learn
techniques to help clients endure
uncomfortable feelings. Explore how
to use transference, counter-transference,
and projective identification to
help maintain an empathic stance. 12. Don’t Take the Bait: Working
with conduct-disordered youth Clients with little or no motivation to change present us with a challenge and an opportunity for personal growth. Sorting out which feelings and responsibilities belong to the client and which belong to the worker is ongoing. Learn 10 guidelines for self-preservation. 13.
Countering Normalizing Sexual
Harm: A key to prevent child
exploitation The workshop defines normalization and addresses four areas that add to the problem: technology, pornography, marketing to children, and a hyper-sexualized culture. Studies showing their impact and prevention strategies are highlighted. 14. Creative Use of Therapeutic
Games, Art, Puppets, and Stories Using play, games, art, puppets, and
stories engages children and families
in therapy and helps them resolve
their psychological difficulties. In this 12:00-1:15 Lunch (on your own):Dining options are: Mez Restaurant (1st floor of Marriott). The Underground Shops offer a variety of eateries (enter from the Marriott Lobby) located within easy walking distance from the conference location. 1:15-2:45 pm Workshops 15-21: 15.
Sexually Reactive Children:
The challenges, frustrations,
and rewards—Part 1 This workshop provides a model for working with young children that includes a developmentally sensitive assessment process, parallel groups for children and their caretakers, and an individually tailored treatment plan. Learn key elements of treatment designed to provide children and their parents the psychoeducation they need to create a climate conducive to consistent, empathic, and immediate responses. Participants should also attend Part 2—Workshop 22. 16. Trauma-focused Cognitivebehavioral
Treatment for
Traumatized Children and
Their Families—Part 1 Learn cognitive-behavioral therapy for children and their families, including strategies to intervene with children and their parents. Learn rationale for this treatment model and understand treatment procedures, which are stress management, psychoeducation, gradual exposure, cognitive processing, and parental interventions. Participants should also attend Part 2—Workshop 23. 17. Viewing Nonoffending Parenting
through a Complex Trauma Lens Nonoffending parents often present
some of the most complex challenges
in the field of child abuse. This workshop
helps you build a framework for 18.
Couple and Family Narrative
Therapy Approaches for Effects
of Incest and Childhood Sexual
Abuse—Part 1 Learn new and creative Couple and Family Narrative Therapy approaches to address the often multiple and complex individual, relational and often multigenerational effects of incest and childhood sexual abuse. Narrative Therapy is the newest major school of family therapy and offers new, creative ways for people to transform their lives and relationships. Learn to collaborate effectively with people who have been abused, those who have abused and the people who care about them. Workshop is illustrated with practical handouts, clinical videotapes, and interactive exercises. Participants should also attend Part 2—Workshop 25. 19.
Assessing trauma: Psychometrics
of trauma measurement
in children and adolescents This workshop explores the use of characteristics of currently available measures of trauma symptomatology in children and adolescents. Suggestions for optimal test batteries for different child-adolescent groups are offered. 20.
Internet Pornography Learn about adult and child internet pornography. The types of adult porn, frequency of use, and information on pornography addicts is presented. Learn about the types and ages of child porn, methods of access, and luring adolescents for live sex shows. 21.
Strong at the Broken Places—
Resiliency in Survivors The myth, “once damaged goods,
always damaged goods,” implies
survivors of trauma are destined to
continue patterns of abuse—against
themselves or others. To the contrary,
most survivors go on to lead healthy
and fulfilling lives. Many derive their
greatest strengths in the very areas
where they’ve been hurt the most.
This session includes the documentary
short “Strong at the Broken
Places,” produced by the Oscarwinning
Cambridge Documentary 2:45 Break3:00-4:30 pm Workshops 22-28: 22.
Sexually Reactive Children:
The challenges, frustrations,
and rewards—Part 2 This continuation of Workshop 15 is only for those who attended Part 1. 23. Trauma-focused Cognitive behavioral
Treatment for
Traumatized Children and
their Families—Part 2 This continuation of Workshop 16 is only for those who attended Part 1. 24.
Compassion Fatigue:
Replenishing the caregiver After hearing about violence and abuse, therapists can be haunted by memories, lose sleep, abuse substances and suffer depression. Learn to identify signs, prevent symptoms, and discover personal and professional solutions. Learn breathing and imaging, how to take a personal inventory and how to incorporate your health values into daily rituals. 25.
Couple and Family Narrative Therapy Approaches for Effects
of Incest and Childhood Sexual
Abuse—Part 2 This continuation of Workshop 18 is only for those who attended Part 1. 26.
Pornography: The changing
impact on our lives and work Identify key changes in pornography and its access via technology. Understand its impact on shaping attitudes and behaviors. The session has explicit images from “Who Wants to Be a Porn Star?” by Dines, Jenson, and Whisnant. Emphasis is on the need for awareness of these changes and how they affect our work. 27.
Innovative Techniques to Engage
Resistant Clients in Counseling Many children in counseling have difficulty verbalizing their issues because they are reluctant to selfdisclose and they are anxious about the therapeutic process. Play-based activities can engage resistant children and help them express their thoughts and feelings. Through lecture, activity demonstrations, and audio-visual presentations, you learn several techniques to engage resistant children and youth in counseling. 28.
Mother/Child Relationship
During and After a Child
Sexual Abuse Investigation This relationship can help heal.
Most therapy helps re-build the
parent/child bond. Learn about
data from focus groups on how
mothers perceived their relationship
to be adversely affected by interventions
designed to help! The group
will discuss how to preserve and
endorse attachment between Eastern Conference on Child Sexual Abuse TreatmentFriday, March 28, 2008
Workshop descriptions:9:00-10:30 am Workshops 29-35:29.
Interviewing the Nonoffending
Caregiver During a Sexual
Abuse Investigation—Part 1 Interviewing the nonoffending caregiver (NOC) in a child sexual abuse case is crucial. Part 1 will assist professionals in understanding the reactions of the NOC and the impact of those reactions on the child. Learn how to use information from the interview to help supporting or refuting allegations of abuse. Participants should also attend Part 2—Workshop 36. 30.
Principles for Group Work
with Trauma Survivors—Part 1 Learn essential principles for
effective group work with trauma
survivors. Understand the importance
of group contracts and learn
how to maintain group boundaries.
Part 2 integrates group work essentials
by using a live demonstration
group with an emphasis on “group
leader role modeling.” Participants 31.
Trauma-focused Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy with
Youth in Foster Care This workshop offers a brief overview of the application of TF-CBT with youth in foster care. Topics include: working with case workers and foster parents, timing and integrating trauma-focused work into treatment, and working through multiple traumas including those unique to foster placement. 32.
From Hurt to Healing: Play
therapy techniques for sexually
abused children—Part 1 This seminar provides you with
play therapy interventions to use
with sexually abused children and
adolescents. Learn through lecture,
case examples, and experiential
activities. Emphasis is on providing
you with play therapy techniques
which can be immediately put into
practice. Participants should also 33.
Effects of Early Trauma on
Child Development—Part
1 Learn how early (birth to age 6) trauma affects brain and personality development, functioning, and maturation. Assessment and treatment implications are outlined. Attachment disruption, chaotic and violent environments are emphasized. Learn through lecture, individual exercises, and small group discussion. Participants should also attend Part 2—Workshop 40. 34. Assessing Risk in Juvenile
Sex Offenders: The psychosexual
risk assessment Learn the key components of conducting a comprehensive psycho-sexual risk assessment, including providing a written report. Discussion includes gathering collateral information, using sex offender specific and other assessment tools, and making recommendations. 35.
Assessing Psychological
Trauma in Adults Numerous screening and
assessment instruments have
been developed in the past
decade to evaluate symptoms
and to diagnose disorders.
This workshop provides an
overview of the relevant issues
that arise in assessing individuals
with a history of trauma.
Learn about assessment
instruments and how they can
be used in both an assessment
and a clinical setting. 10:45-12:15 pm Workshops 36-42:36.
Interviewing the Nonoffending
Caregiver During
a Sexual Abuse Investigation—Part 2 This continuation of Workshop 29 is only for those who attended Part 1. 37.
Principles for Group Work
with Trauma Survivors—Part 2 This continuation of Workshop 30 is only for those who attended Part 1. 38.
Evidence-based Treatments
for PTSD Learn about evidenced-based
treatments for PTSD. The literature
supporting each treatment is reviewed
as well as the basic treatment components, 39.
From Hurt to Healing:
Play therapy techniques
for sexually abused children—Part 2 This continuation of Workshop 32 is only for those who attended Part 1. 40.
Effects of Early Trauma on
Child Development—Part 2 This continuation of Workshop 33 is only for those who attended Part 1. 41.
Cultural Issues in Child
Sexual Abuse Understand cultural factors that influence how families respond to child sexual abuse. Learn how to work with diverse families and how to build on familial and cultural strengths. Examples are drawn from several ethnic groups. 42. Risk Management
in Treating Trauma Clinicians who treat victims of trauma
must understand trauma and the risks
of treating it. It is imperative to “do no
more harm” by re-traumatizing clients 12:15-1:30 Lunch (on your own):Dining options are: Terrace Restaurant (1st floor of Marriott). The Underground Shops offer a variety of eateries (enter from the Marriott Lobby) located within easy walking distance from the conference location. 1:30-3:00 pm Workshops 43-49:43.
Cross-Cultural interviewing:
Understanding and overcoming
reluctance This workshop improves participants’ cultural competence in interviewing families, adults and children about child sexual abuse. Topics covered include body language, respect, some motivations behind reluctance and ways to overcome it. Examples are drawn from diverse cultural groups. 44. Creative Interventions for
Juvenile Sex Offenders This workshop focuses on how to incorporate creative play therapy techniques into juvenile sex offender treatment. 45.
Assessing and Treating
PTSD and Substance Abuse The high prevalence of alcohol and
drug use disorders among survivors
of childhood sexual abuse requires
competency in assessing and treating 46.
Assessing and Treating Sexualized
Behavior Problems in Children
under Age 12 The number of children under age 12 with inappropriate sexualized behavior has increased and presents a challenge to parents, practitioners, schools, and communities. Learn how to treat these behaviors starting with proper assessment and within a developmental context. Learn how to use a comprehensive approach, which includes milieu interventions and outpatient methods. 47.
Decision-making in Child
Sexual Abuse Cases This workshop focuses on improving decision-making in child sexual abuse cases by removing the burden of proof from the alleged child victim. Learn about the necessary, though limited, role of the child forensic interview; the multiple factors to consider in the investigation; the use of a hypothesis testing model; and strategies to assess and to corroborate the child’s statement. 48.
ACT Against Violence—Parents
Raising Safe Kids This workshop will introduce and review the ACT Against Violence— Parents Raising Safe Kids program, which is an 8-10 session curriculum that can be administered to parents and early childhood professionals involved with caring for children. The objective of the ACT program is to decrease child exposure to violence in all its forms (e.g., exposure to child emotional, physical and sexual abuse, domestic abuse and sexual and violent material in the media) by working with parents to increase their knowledge and expectations of normal child development; improve positive parenting skills such as problem solving and anger management; and limit children’s exposure to subtle and vert violence and sexually explicit material in the home, community and via media. 49.
Changing Relationship between
Sexual Health and Child Sexual
Abuse Treatment: How do
therapists prepare? Define sexual health and explore societal negative attitudes and taboos that influence how treatment professionals are trained. Recognize the need to integrate sexual health and sexual abuse treatment to improve client outcomes. Case examples address questions on theory and application. |
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