Youth Who Are Sexually Abusive and Risk Assessment: What You Need to Know

Description

This webinar will review the current research findings on youth of all ages, (including youth with low intellectual functioning), who are found to engage in persistent coarse sexual improprieties, and/or harmful, problematic sexual behaviors including sexually abusive behaviors. A new area of sexual abuse, technology‐facilitated youth sexual abusers (TFYSA), will be discussed. Differentiations related to gender diversity and youth will be delineated including risk levels and family histories. Available assessment tools for youth ages 2-19 years will be compared, differentiating those that are standardized (developed according to the scientific method) versus those that are not (substandard tools—colander approach).

Learning Objectives 

1. Describe the empirical study findings on youth of all ages (including youth with low intellectual functioning), who are found to engage in persistent coarse sexual improprieties, and/or harmful, problematic sexual behaviors, including sexual abusive behaviors.
2. Compare and contrast empirical study findings between male, female, and gender diverse youth who are sexually abusive.
3. Summarize empirical study findings differentiating risk levels, according to gender and age groups, including youth with low intellectual functioning.

Presenter

L.C. Miccio-Fonseca,Ph.D.

Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca is highly specialized in assessment of individuals who are sexually abusive, or who have sex disorders (the paraphilias), maintaining a practice in Southern California. Her ongoing research on individuals who are sexually abusive has spanned over 40 years. It includes a 7-year research project comparing individuals who are sexually abusive and sexual abuse victims, and the construction and validation of the innovative risk assessment tool MEGA♪ with multiple cross-validation studies on close to 4,000 youth with coarse sexual improprieties and/or sexually abusive behaviors. MEGA meets the best standards of forensic practice for assessing adjudicated and non-adjudicated youth, including those with low intellectual functioning. 

Dr. Miccio-Fonseca’s research has been selected for presentation in international conferences in Caracas, Venezuela, Toronto Canada, and Rome Italy, and published in multiple peer review journals including special issues of the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality and the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.

Cost

$35 for NBFE members (i.e., CFMHEs and CFMHE applicants/candidates) and, for members of  our partnering organizations please see Professional Partners for current listing)
$50 for Non-members

Continuing Education Information

ACEP No. 6189

Florida CE Broker Tracking No. 20-1314189

CE Broker Provider No. 50-15823

                               

          

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This workshop has been approved for 3.0 general hours, with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, & Mental Health Counseling and the Florida Board of Psychology, CE Broker Tracking # 20-1314189 (CE Broker Provider #50-15823).

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