Total Credits: 8 including 8 American Psychological Association, 8 Association of Social Worker Boards, 8 National Board of Certified Counselors
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MEGA Specialized Risk Assessment Virtual Training
Do you work with youth placed in residential care and/or in treatment group homes with problematic sexual improprieties and need to assess protective factors and risk levels for coarse sexual improprieties and/or sexually abusive behaviors?
Are you a probation officer or a social worker that works in dependency, or with foster-care, or adoptions, or with juvenile courts that place and/or house youth with problematic sexual improprieties and need to assess protective factors and risk level for coarse sexual improprieties and/or sexually abusive behaviors?
Are you are involved in long-term care with youth with problematic sexual improprieties and need to assess protective factors and risk levels for coarse sexual improprieties and/or sexually abusive behaviors?
Are you a mental health professional involved in cases of sexual abuse with youth with problematic sexual improprieties and need to assess protective factors and risk levels for coarse sexual improprieties and/or sexually abusive behaviors?
Come and learn to administer and interpret an evidence-based risk assessment tool for youth for assessing risk for coarse sexual improprieties and/or sexually abusive behaviors.
Professionals do not have to be licensed in the mental health field, but should have at least 2 years’ experience working with sexual abuse cases and/or working with youth who are sexually abusive and/or youth with coarse sexual improprieties.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
1. List risk factors of youth demonstrating sexually abusive behaviors
2. Identify protective factors of youth demonstrating sexually abusive behaviors
3. Assess the research and validity of the MEGA instrument
Please note: This is a virtual training and a manual will be mailed to you ahead of the event. Please ensure that you have the correct mailing address listed under your CE21 Account Settings.
L.C. Miccio-Fonseca, PhD, is a clinical/research psychologist and a leading expert in the field of child sexual abuse, is author of numerous articles on sexually abusive individuals and assessment of such individuals. Dr. Miccio-Fonseca’s ongoing research on sex offenders (all ages and genders) led to developing unique tools for assessing individuals who are sexually abusive, including MEGA? and the Personal Sentence Completion Inventory (PSCI, 1994). The MEGA? is a state-of-the-art risk assessment tool for assessing risk and protective factors for coarse sexual improprieties and/or sexually abusive behaviors for adjudicated and non-adjudicated youth ages 4-19 (males, females, and transgender, including youth with low intellectual functioning). The PSCI is the first of its kind, a versatile inventory used in exploring erotic development.