Course Description



What makes the perpetrators of child sexual abuse think the way they do? For many, the answers to these questions are unimaginable. For helping professionals who provide play therapy and counseling to children, those answers could provide important clues that enable unique clinical insight, greater opportunity for meaningful therapeutic responses, richer case conceptualizations, and thoughtful clinical interventions. Understanding the origins and maintenance of perpetrator behavior offers essential knowledge to help professionals keep children safe.


By the end of this webinar:

1.) Participants will be able to identify the components of a six step model to understanding perpetrators.

2. Participants will describe at least two ways personal perspectives influence how we see perpetrator behavior.

3. Participants will identify three common myths about child perpetrators of sexual abuse.

4. Understand the difference between situational and preferential sexual offending against children


Presented by: 

Jodi Mullen PhD, LMHC, NCC, RPT-S, CCPT-Master & Graham Hill, PhD

*THIS PRESENTATION IS AVAILABLE (UPON REQUEST) LIVE IN-PERSON & LIVE ONLINE. 

Dr. Mullen & Dr. Hill are taking requests for presenting this topic in the future. It is available live online and/or in person and would include videos from interviews of child sexual offenders and play therapy sessions in the presentation. Please contact us at [email protected] to inquire & request.

 

Duration: 2 Hrs


Continuing Education (2 CEs)
Integrative Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized  by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental  Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for  licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0085

Integrative  Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized by the New York  State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved  provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0308.

Integrative Counseling Services, PLLC is approved by The Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. Our provider number is 06-168. 




Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • How to Complete this Course!

    • Welcome!

    • Tell us more about YOU!
  • 2

    Course

    • Making sense of play: How understanding perpetrators of child sexual abuse can inform Play Therapy with sexually traumatized children. (PART 1)

    • Making Sense of Play: PART 1 (PDF PowerPoint Slides)
  • 3

    Resources

    • Glossary of Play Therapy Terms

    • Dr. Mullen's Favorite Play Therapy Reads!
  • 4

    Continuing Education

    • Continuing Education Quiz
  • 5

    Course Feedback

    • Course Feedback Survey

About the instructors

PhD, LMHC, NCC, RPT-S, CCPT-Master

Jodi Mullen

Dr. Jodi Weinstein Mullen, PhD LMHC NCC RPT-S CCPT-Master is the Director of Integrative Counseling Services in Oswego, Fulton, Cicero, and Auburn, New York. She is on the faculty at SUNY Oswego in the Counseling & Psychological Services Department where she is the coordinator of the Graduate Certificate Program in Play Therapy. Dr. Mullen is a credentialed play therapist and play therapy supervisor. She is the author of several manuscripts on play therapy and supervision. Her books include “Counseling Children and Adolescents through Grief and Loss”(co-authored by Dr. Jody Fiorini)(2006), “Play Therapy Basic Training: A Guide to Learning & Living & the Child-Centered Play Therapy Philosophy”(2007), “Supervision can be Playful: Techniques for Child and Play Therapist Supervisors” (co-edited with Athena Drewes) (2008), and “How Play Therapists Can Engage Parents & Professionals” (co-authored by June Rickli)(2011). Dr. Mullen is on the editorial board for the international Journal of Play Therapy. She is also the clinical editor of Play Therapy magazine.

About the instructor

PhD.

Graham Hill

Dr. Graham Hill is a British criminologist and subject matter expert in relation to the behavior of adults who sexually abuse children and male perpetrators of non-familial child abduction. Dr. Hill is a former senior detective and was the founder and first Head of Behavioral Analysis for the UK Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre (CEOP). Graham’s investigative career and research background give him a unique perspective of sexual crimes against children.Dr. Hill lectures internationally on a wide range of subjects. He is a member of the British Society of Criminology and a Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds University in England.