Overview

This webinar will focus on psychosocial intervention for individuals who have engaged in, or are at risk of engaging in, child sexual abuse material (CSAM) offending. Using Risk-Needs-Responsivity and offence formulation frameworks, the webinar will review the factors that predispose, precipitate, and perpetuate CSAM offending and explore how these can be addressed in individual and group-based treatment. It will provide strategies for individualising treatment and managing treatment targets in time-limited settings. Prevalent personality presentations among people with CSAM offences will also be reviewed, alongside responsivity, risk management, and mandatory reporting considerations most likely to arise during treatment.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this event, participants should be able to:

• Apply risk, need, and responsivity considerations when working with people with CSAM offences
• Identify ways to adapt offence-specific interventions for individual and group contexts
• Understand risk management and mandatory reporting considerations relevant to this client group

Presenter(s)

About the presenter(s)

Dr. Marie Henshaw is a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Research Lead for Child Sexual Abuse Prevention — a joint initiative between the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology, and Stop it Now! Australia. She is lead author of the CEM COPE Program, an offence-specific group intervention for people with a history of CSAM offences, which is currently being piloted across forensic and correctional services in Australia, Canada, and Ohio. Dr. Henshaw leads a program of research on online child sexual exploitation and abuse aimed at enhancing prevention and justice responses. She previously worked as a Senior Practitioner at Stop It Now! Australia, and as a psychologist with Forensicare's Problem Behaviour Program, Marrmak Program, and in private practice.

Dr. Emily Stevenson is a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist currently employed by the Department of Veterans' Affairs and working in private practice, where she specialises in the assessment and treatment of individuals who use CSAM. She also provides expert reports to the Court. Dr. Stevenson previously worked in Forensicare's Problem Behaviour Program, where she provided treatment for a range of offending behaviours, including co facilitating the CEM-COPE Program. She has published research on the group treatment of sexual offenders.

Notes

Target Audience

This activity is aimed at psychologists and health professionals.

Please note:

• This is a Member Groups event. All communication will be sent to the registrants’ registered email address. This includes event reminders with details (such as the venue details, zoom link) and any pre-event or post-event resources, if provided by the facilitators.
• A post-event email will be sent within two weeks of the event’s completion to each registrant’s registered email address. This email will include the CPD certificate, and any additional resources shared during the session.

Duration of Access

This event will not be recorded.

CPD

It is up to attendees to assess and determine how learning from this event aligns with the requirements of their learning plan. The providers accordingly do not make any representation that the event counts towards attendees’ CPD learning requirements. If an attendee determines themselves that the learning they complete aligns to their learning plan, then they can decide to count those hours towards their CPD requirements for the registration cycle.

The information in this presentation has been prepared in good faith and for educational purposes only. Therefore, the information is general in nature and should not be relied upon in the treatment of any condition and you should seek your own independent professional and/or legal advice concerning any specific issue. The APS accepts no responsibility for any errors, omissions or decisions relating to the information. The content should not be reproduced without permission or unless permitted by law.

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