Name:Karen Holt What is your position on the Board?Board member What committees do you serve on?Research and scholarships Why did you join the Board?I wanted to be a more active participant in achieving the goal of no more victims. I also wanted tocollaborate with practitioners and to learn more about the clinical, medical, and legal…
Name:Kris Pence What is your position on the Board?Board member at large What committees do you serve on?Written Communication Committee Why did you join the Board?I joined the board as a way to further integrate into the clinical and supervision community, as well as beable to serve those we monitor and treat through advocacy and…
Name:John Ulrich Ph.D. What is your position on the Board?Member What committees do you serve on?Written Communication, chair, and Registration Committee Why did you join the Board?To help build a stronger Michigan network of clinicians and other interested people committed toreducing sexual abuse by working with individuals who have committed sexual offenses. This includeshelping the…
Name:David Berghuis What is your position on the Board?Board President What committees do you serve on?None What committees do you serve on?None Why did you join the Board?I joined the board in order to help bring world-class training to the providers in Michigan. I wanted tohelp the people that provide services to those that have…
Name: Marissa Smits What is your position on the Board? Board Member What committees do you serve on? Technical Communications Why did you join the Board? Professional development, access to trainings, and most importantly being involved with a group of experienced professions from whom I can learn. What is your favorite quote? “Everything can be…
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Makayla MasonDoctoral Student Karen Holt, Ph.D.Assistant Professor School of Criminal JusticeMichigan State University Introduction Recently, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a review entitled, “A horrifying new AI app swaps women into porn videos with a click” (Hao, 2021). They detailed a new application, which they refused to name so as not to draw…
By Sharon Denniston, Ph.D. Juvenile Advocate and Public Policy Consultant In June 2020 the national Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) published The Registration & Community Notification of Children & Adolescents Adjudicated of a Sexual Crime: Recommendations for Evidence-Based Reform. In this document the organization detailed the research related to juveniles with…
By Andy Hicks, MS CADC While selecting a topic for the thesis to complete her Master of Social Work degree at Spring Arbor University, one might not imagine Christina Hamman choosing to focus on the sex offender registry and related notification laws. Ms. Hamman spent fifteen years of her life working with groups to prevent…
By Nada Younes, SOT Therapist, Wise Mind PLLC Erich Fromm (1941) believed that before knowing others, one must first know themselves; to know oneself as a therapist enables an environment of self-efficacy and motivation for the client to come to know themselves too. Deep breaths. When I was asked to write this reflective narrative on…