Sexual Assault Awareness - FPN

Suicide Assessment, Treatment, and Management

As a mental health professional, you know that suicide is a major public health concern. Death by suicide claims more than 40,000 lives each year in the United States, out numbering deaths by homicide. This course sharpens your clinical skills and helps you prevent suicide by knowing the risk factors and routinely assessing the individuals you treat.

1.  Sexual Assault of Women
Sexual violence affects up to one third of women during their lifetime, is underreported, and more than one half of assaults are committed by someone known to the survivor.
AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN

2.  Sexual Sunday School: The DSM and the Gatekeeping of Morality
The history of psychiatry’s encounter with sexual diagnoses calls into question the role of psychiatrists as society’s moral gatekeepers.
AMA JOURNAL OF ETHICS

3. Care of the Adolescent After an Acute Sexual Assault
National data show that teenagers and young adults ages 12 to 34 years have the highest rates of being sexually assaulted of any age group.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS

4. Detecting Elder Abuse and Neglect: Assessment and Intervention
One out of 10 older adults experiences some form of abuse or neglect by a caregiver each year, and the incidence is expected to increase.
AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN

5. Belated Justice for Sexual Assault Victims
Rebecca Campbell helped Detroit determine why critical evidence in thousands of sexual assault cases sat forgotten in a city storage facility for decades. Now she is bringing her expertise to other jurisdictions around the country.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)

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EMDR Therapy: Treating OCD and Related Disorders

POPULAR, 5 CREDIT, ONLINE CE COURSE

Edited by a leading EMDR scholar and practitioner, the course content delivers step-by-step protocols that enable practitioners
to enhance their expertise more quickly when treating clients or groups of clients with these conditions. For each topic, the authors
include relevant questions for history taking, helpful resources and explanations, frequently used negative and positive cognitions,
and information on case conceptualization and treatment planning.

The CE course is for practitioners who have had some experience with EMDR, and it is designated as intermediate to advanced.

6. Concealing Campus Sexual Assault: An Empirical Examination
This study seeks to test whether there is substantial undercounting of sexual assault by universities by examining statistical patterns in data submitted by universities.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)

7. Don’t Tell: Military Culture and Male Rape
This article discusses male rape myths and related constructs as they are expressed within military culture.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES

8. Sexual Violence - Facts at a Glance
Current data and statistics on sexual violence.
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL (CDC)

9. Sexual Violence Prevention: Beginning the Dialogue
To prevent sexual violence, all sectors of our communities, many groups and agencies need to be engaged and understand what circumstances and factors influence its occurrence.
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL (CDC)

10.  Counseling Survivors of Sexual Assault
Using this five-phase model, a high client retention rate of 70 percent and a low cancellation rate of approximately 25 percent was maintained over 18 months.
COUNSELING TODAY

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