The intersection of online and offline behaviours in sexual abuse: reframing approaches
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 By Kieran McCartan, PhD & Sophie King-Hill, PhD Over recent years there has been a rise in conversations about sexual abuse in the online environment. These conversations encompass a wide range of online behaviours such as catfishing and its impacts, sexual and relationship education in UK schools, the production of Child Sexual Exploitation material internationally, as well as the nature of pornography on legal sites (i.e., Pornhub). The main premise that all these conversations have in common is how the relationship between sexual abuse and exploitation is understood in the online ..read more
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Finding joy in our work and our lives
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3w ago
By David S. Prescott, LICSW Reviewing the blog posts and ATSA communications for the membership (The Wire, the Catalyst newsletter) of the past few weeks provides a wonderful snapshot of the work we all do. From risk assessment to protective factors, and empirically sound treatment, it’s all in there. As we’ve said before, the people in this field can be real superheroes. Of course, there are topics that can be difficult to talk about. A recent survey found many of us experiencing the signs and symptoms of burnout despite having good overall self-care practices. Likewise, last week’s blog, abo ..read more
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Imposter Syndrome
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1M ago
By David S. Prescott, LICSW, and Kasia Uzieblo, PhD  At last year’s ATSA conference, David had the good fortune to facilitate two discussion groups for people who, due to their circumstances, don’t have many colleagues with whom they can speak openly. By far the two biggest topics that came up were working in isolation and imposter syndrome, also known more recently as “imposterism.” During these sessions, newcomers to the field heard from us old-timers, who all agreed that we still feel it often. It all reminded me of the time — years ago — when a world-famous researcher openly discussed ..read more
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The challenge of balancing human rights for all
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1M ago
By Kieran McCartan, PhD.,  & David S. Prescott, LICSW Last week’s blog post focused on an unfortunate reality: We can’t always discuss things publicly lest we be labelled as political partisans. Although no one is without some degree of biases and leanings, it is simply too easy to attack and be attacked for statements taken out of context. We recall the sad fate of someone who commented in social media that balancing the human rights of the client and the community can be a challenge. His statement was sent to a local politician, who went to the media and scored significant political ..read more
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We’re Losing Ground Again
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1M ago
By David S. Prescott, LICSW, ATSA-F I’ve long felt sympathy for our colleagues working in the area of family and interpersonal violence. These issues are widespread but receive little attention. It is well known that violence against women has only gotten worse in recent years, and yet many governments have considered abandoning the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, known as the Istanbul Convention. Too often, the reasons have been political, with governments claiming that while they are against family violence, they want to ..read more
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What has research ever done for us?
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2M ago
 By Kieran McCartan, PhD, David S. Prescott, LICSW, ATSA-F, & Kasia Uzieblo, PhD This week Kieran has been involved in several different conversations about research outcomes, Key Performance Indictors (KPI) and how we measure them. This has been equally engaging and frustrating. This week has really enforced in Kieran the need to emphasis the role, purpose, and use of research, which is often an afterthought or a bolt on for many organisations and programmes. This is a shame, as research should be seen as core business and essential to the development, roll out, and maintenance of an ..read more
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Extending a Previous Blog Post: Ethical Considerations on the Costs of Resources
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2M ago
By David S. Prescott, LICSW, ATSA-F In our December 13, 2023 blog post, Dr. Sophie King-Hill asks: In many harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) services for children and young people (CYP) how resources are funded, developed, and delivered is coming under increasing scrutiny as frontline and third sectors organisations are having budgets cut and services reduced. Given this context, is it ever ethical to charge for these resources? . . . At face value the ethical principles of HSB work may appear clear-cut (i.e., work in a trauma informed way, do no harm, protect the patient/service user ..read more
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Reflections on the recent NOTA & Lucy Faithfull Foundation sexual abuse prevention conference
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2M ago
By Megan Hinton, Victim and Survivor Advocate, Marie Collins Foundation I recently joined the Marie Collins Foundation (MCF) as a Victim and Survivor Advocate. My role involves working alongside those with lived experience of technology-assisted child sexual abuse to champion and amplify their voice and embed it into policy, practice, and academia. As a survivor myself part of my position includes speaking about my lived experience at conferences and events. So, when the Lucy Faithfull Foundation reached out to ask if I wanted to give the opening address at the Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Co ..read more
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Problematic sexual behaviors as a juvenile outcome measure
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3M ago
By Norbert Ralph, PhD, MPH   For juveniles who sexually offended (JwSO), sexual recidivism is identified as one of the primary outcome measures. Reitzel and Carbonell (2006) titled their meta-analysis of treatment programs "The Effectiveness of Sexual Offender Treatment for Juveniles as Measured by Recidivism." Methodologically and clinically using this measure has virtues but also limitations. With sexual recidivism rates in some researchers estimated to be about 5% (Lussier et al., 2023) it would be difficult to obtain samples large enough to detect a treatment effect. Also would a redu ..read more
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Ethical considerations of the financial cost of resources on harmful sexual behaviour services
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3M ago
 By Sophie King-Hill, Ph.D., University of Birmingham In many harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) services for children and young people (CYP) how resources are funded, developed, and delivered is coming under increasing scrutiny as frontline and third sectors organisations are having budgets cut and services reduced. Given this context, is it ever ethical to charge for these resources? Preventing and responding to (HSB) in children and young people forms a significant proportion of the work social services, the third sector and social justice organisations carry out. Due to this there ar ..read more
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