The Nature & Extent of Child Sexual Abuse for Custody Evaluators
Course: The Nature & Extent of Child Sexual Abuse for Custody Evaluators Instructor: Michael L. Alvarez, M.S., LMFT Approved for 2.5 Hours of CE Credit Fulfills Requirements for Psycholgist, MFTs, LCSWs, and Licensed Professional Counselors. This course is designed for Full and Part-Time Private Practitioners, and Full and Part-Time Agency Employees High Resolution Online Streaming Video Format Available |
Allegations of child sexual abuse (CSA), within the context of a custody evaluations, require evaluators to have special knowledge about CSA. This course is designed to educate existing and future California court-ordered child custody evaluators about The Nature and Extent of Child Sexual Abuse. This education and training is part of the required course work before appointment by a court to its custody panel, as required by the Judicial Council of California (California Rules of Court 5.225 (CRC)). This course is designed for clinicians, in all states, intent on broadening his or her knowledge about child custody subject matter.
The course material includes identifying factors constituting CSA (contact and non-contact), and to what extent it arises. The course focuses on the issues of social and family dynamics, ornamentation, objectification, grooming, pornography, and parental fitness. Suggested integrated approaches will be covered as will a clinical view about pedophilia.
Scaled psychometric instruments, such as the Static-99R and Acute 2007, that can predict the correlation between different sexual deviancy risk factors, are previewed.
Course Goal and Objectives
- Explain the nature and the extent of CSA.
- Explain the meaning of “ornamentation.”.
- Describe three integrated approaches to child custody evaluations
- Describe how pornography can equate to CSA.
- Explain four major themes that suggest why CSA disclosure can be significantly compromised.
- Identify three psychometric tests used as projective tools for evaluating sexual deviancy.
- Identify five effects of CSA exhibited by children.
Your access to the course material extends for 1-year from the date of purchase. This includes after passing the post-test, so you may continue to review its contents.