About the Author |
| Dr. Kathryn Seifert has over 30 years experience as a psychotherapist and she founded Eastern Shore Psychological Services, a multidisciplinary mental health clinic with 4 locations. She has created several guided imagery and journal sets and has written numerous self help articles. She speaks nationally and has written dozens of articles about youth and family violence and helping high risk youth. She created the CARE: Child and Adolescent Risk Evaluation. Her lecture on ?Disrupted Attachment Patterns? is available on DVD. Her Book, ?How Children Become Violent? won a 2007 Independent Publishers Award. |
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Summary
6 hours CE
Kathryn Seifert, Ph.D.
This course was written for professionals working in the mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice/criminal justice, and research fields, as well as students studying these fields. The authors’ goal is to make a case for the fact that juvenile and adult violence begins very early in life, and it is both preventable and treatable. The author draws on her 30 years of experience working in and researching violence to demonstrate that society must intervene early in the lives of children living in violent, neglectful, criminal, and substance-dependent families. This course provides information about the problems of violence — in its various forms of abuse, neglect, and just plain senseless killing — that takes place in this country. These are problems that are seldom handled well by governmental agencies of child welfare, juvenile justice, education, and mental health. This results in more problems, turning into a cycle of youth violence and sexual offending that will potentially continue for generations. However, with the correct intervention, this cycle can be broken, which creates a safer environment for all of society.
Learning Objectives - Name 5 risk factors for youth violence
- Name 2 resiliency factors that can help overcome the influence of violence
- List 2 assessment tools used to evaluate youth risk for violence
- List 4 interventions appropriate for youth at risk for violence
- Name the 6 stages of moral development
- Identify the elements that are included in the definition of psychopathy
Difficulty Level: Beginning to Intermediate
Pub date 2006 129pp 6 hours CE
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