Geraldine Crisci, M.S.W.
Date: Thursday, October 7, 2021
Time: 9:00am -3:30pm via Zoom
Cost: $75
Limit: 100 participants
CEUs: Currently pending for Psychology and Social Work
Training Description:
Understanding inappropriate sexual behaviour presentations is impossible without having a clear understanding of normative sexual behaviour. This workshop will review normative sexual development – birth through puberty. Developmental expectations for each phase of sexual development will be clearly outlined.
This workshop will address the confusing issues surrounding sexualized behaviour presentation by the pre-school and school-aged, pre-pubescent child. Discussion will include the influence of culture and media on “acceptable” behaviour. Criteria will be outlined to assist in determining the necessity of clinical intervention. The role of parents, educators, health care personnel and mental health practitioners in identifying problems will be defined.
Many adults have experienced sexual trauma which may have left them with earlier developmental arrests. These issues may be identified as relationship issues; communication problems with partners, or difficulty discussing sexual issues with their children. This workshop provides a framework for identifying sexual development as we all experience it and may be useful to adult therapists working with traumatized individuals.
Speaker Bio (from http://www.geraldinecrisci.com/)
Geraldine Crisci, M.S.W. is a mental health professional with 30 years experience in the field of trauma. She is a private practitioner who provides assessment and treatment to children, youth and their families. She is also a professional trainer providing educational programs to mental health, protective services, law enforcement, medical and other helping profession. Geraldine developed and teaches the 6 day Trauma Assessment and Treatment Program for Safeguards which has reached 1500 professionals in the past 10 years. Geraldine has developed protocols for the assessment and treatment of trauma, sexualized behaviour problems and sibling sexual abuse. Geraldine also developed reunification protocol for families. She has provided support to agencies and families in successful adoption of children from the Protection system. She has worked extensively with residential treatment programs for children and youth for the past 20 years. She specializes in addressing the impact of trauma on the behaviour of children and youth. To this end she develops clinical programs to provide children, youth and their families with corrective effective therapeutic intervention. Geraldine is a member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC). She co-authored Paper Dolls and Paper Airplanes: Therapeutic Exercises for Sexually Traumatized Children, which is currently in its 10th year of printing.
Bookings
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