Clinical

SafePath Children's Advocacy Center Presents:

Anna Salter: "Sex Offenders & Victims: Current Issues, Assessment, Treatment, and Special Populations" 

April 20th, 2012

Location: Kennesaw State University Continuing Education Center  3333 Busbee Dive Kennesaw, Ga. 30144

This workshop will focus on current issues related to sex offender assessment and treatment as well as a focus on the impact of sexual abuse on victims. Deception will focus on positive illusions which skew assessment and treatment of sex offenders. Offender assessment will look at new research on actuarial assessment. Treatment will cover attitude change and persuasion techniques from the social sciences, new research on relapse prevention, techniques for addressing criminal thinking and a section on whether some cognitive distortions might prevent relapse. Finally, special populations will cover female sex offenders, incest offenders, psychopaths and adolescent sex offenders. 

About Dr. Anna Salter: Dr. Salter received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice from Harvard University and obtained a Masters Degree in Child Study from Tufts. During the past twenty years, she has held a variety of clinical research and teaching positions at Dartmouth Medical School and Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire. She is currently a consultant with the Department of Corrections and in private practice in Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Salter has written scores of journal articles produced two videos on sex offenders and written four books including Treating Child Sex Offenders and Victims and Transforming Trauma. She has addressed major conference groups throughout the world and has been the recipient of numerous grants for research on sexual offenders. In 1997, Dr. Salter was honored by (ATSA) The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers with their Significant Lifetime Achievement Award. www.annasalter.com