Alliance: Rape Crisis Training Institute: "Victims No Longer": Working with Male Victims of Sexual Abuse
Rape Crisis Training Institute: "Victims No Longer": Working with Male Victims of Sexual Abuse
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An advanced clinical workshop designed for experienced rape crisis center clinicians, and other professionals with experience treating adult survivors of sexual abuse. The day's presentation will address, but not be limited to the following topics:
- Introduction of the topic - current state of clinical thinking, statistics, definitions, terminology.
- Diagnosis - identifying the male survivor client.
- Treatment - effective and ineffective therapeutic approaches.
- Group therapy.
- Issues of Male Survivors.
- Issues for the Therapist - countertransference pitfalls.
- Resources.
About the Presenters:
MIKE LEW, M.Ed., a psychotherapist and group therapy leader in the Boston, MA area, is co-director of The Next Step Counseling and Training Center.
As a cultural anthropologist specializing in the field of Culture and Personality (Psychological Anthropology), he worked with the late Margaret Mead and Colin Turnbull. After further training in Counseling Psychology, he became a leading expert on recovery from sexual child abuse, particularly issues of male survivors.
Mike Lew has worked with thousands of men and women in their healing from the effects of childhood sexual abuse, rape, physical violence, emotional abuse and neglect. The development of strategies for recovery from incest and other abuse, particularly for men, has been a major focus of his work as a counselor and group leader.
He conducts public lectures, workshops for survivors, and trainings and consultations for mental health, medical, human service, clergy, law enforcement, and other professionals throughout the United States and Canada and in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Mike has taught at The City College of New York, Quinnipiac College, The College of New Rochelle and University of California at Santa Cruz.
His publications include Victims No Longer: Men Recovering from Incest and Other Sexual Child Abuse (HarperCollins, 1990). The first book written specifically for men recovering from sexual child abuse, Victims No Longer continues to earn praise for both its clinical expertise and compassionate tone, educating survivors and professionals about the recovery process, speaking to the pain, needs, fears and hopes of the adult male survivor.
Mike's latest book is Leaping Upon the Mountains (Small Wonder Books and North Atlantic Books, 1999).
Mike Lew has consulted to the National Institute of Mental Health, National Resource Center on Child Sexual Abuse, Childhelp USA/National Child Abuse Hotline, People Against Sexual Abuse and many other organizations in the United States and abroad. He has been on the editorial board of the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse and the review board of the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Mike has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Sally Jessy Raphael, People Are Talking and many other television and radio programs.
LOUISE KINDLEY, CSW has been a staff member at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Crime Victims Treatment Center since 1989. She is currently a Senior Social Worker who supervises staff in addition to providing treatment for victims of violence and facilitating support goups for adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
Ms. Kindley has presented at numerous state and national conferences on trauma and conducts trainings for health care professionals, crime victim service providers, and law enforcement personnel. She ahs testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. and frequently provides expert testimony about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Rape Trauma Syndrome and Battered Woman Syndrome at criminal and civil trials.
She is a trainer for the "Risking Connection" model which is designed to help therapists working with trauma survivors maintain an empathetic connection to their clients as well as being aware of their own need for self-care.
Ms. Kindley is Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work.
About the Institute:
The Rape Crisis Training Institute is funded by the NYS Department of Health. Workshops are free for employees of Department of Health sponsored rape crisis programs. There is a $50 fee for all other participants. For information on this or other trainings, call the Alliance at 212.523.4344 or e-mail [1] contact-us@nycagainstrape.org.
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