Healthcare Training Institute - Quality Education since 1979
CE for Psychologist, Social Worker, Counselor, & MFT!!

Course Learning Objectives/Outcomes

By the end of the course, the Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist will be able to:
-Identify two techniques in treating male child sexual abuse.
-Describe three methods for treating male child sexual abuse by rebuilding responsibility and accountability.
-List three qualifications to consider in individual therapy for sexually-abused preadolescent and adolescent boys.
-Identify four aspects of a family member's responsibility during therapy of sexually-abused men.
-Explain five conflicts and issues in the treatment of male child sexual abuse.
-Describe three effects of male child sexual abuse on sexual identity.
-Discuss two phases of rape trauma syndrome in preadolescent and adolescent boys.
-Identify three effects of social pressure on the development of sexually-abused preadolescent and adolescent boys.
-Explain four types of environments that can affect the development of sexually-abused preadolescent and adolescent boys.
-List two ways how to address anger problems in sexually-abused preadolescent and adolescent boys.
-Identify three negative ways of sexually-abused preadolescent and adolescent boys in managing anger.
-Describe three causes of anger in sexually-abused preadolescent and adolescent boys.
-Explain two traits of anxiety related to male child sexual abuse.
-Discuss six issues indicating depression in sexually-abused preadolescent and adolescent boys..
-Explain the darker side of empathy in the therapeutic relationship.
-Name the four phases of therapy with male survivors of sexual abuse.
-Explain what percent of sexually abused boys are perpetrated by a relative.
-Name the three categories of insecure attachments.
-Explain what non-offending family member is often blamed for the abuse.
-Explain the views that often discredit a woman therapist's credibility in a male client's eyes.
-Explain what higher incidence among homosexual than heterosexual men studies in the area of child sexual abuse have repeatedly found.
-Explain which type of coping strategist who commits sexual abuse will prefer to select children who do not resemble himself.
-Explain what is more intense and exacerbated when the victim closely identifies with the perpetrator psychologically.
-Explain what do most men who have been victims of sexual abuse in childhood long for.
-Explain what the survivors used that is controversial as they may perceive it as a loss of control, a salient concern of most survivors.
-Explain what would tend to confirm that, in general, it is not the homosexual nature of the act that arouses abusers, but the power relationship that surrounds the sexual abuse.
-Explain how a clinician can address the issues that arise from scarring and permanent damage from sexual abuse.


"The instructional level of this course is introductory, intermediate, or advanced depending on the learners clinical area of expertise."