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This content is from our 2023 Build Beyond Conference. Build Beyond is an annual clinical conference tailored to mental health professionals working with survivors of trafficking and exploitation. The 2023 conference focus was understanding attachment, using IFS and experiential therapy exercises, exploring the impact of generational trauma, and an overview of the Ascent 121 Commercial Sexual Exploitation Needs Instrument (CSENI). By procuring this content, you will have access to the material for 90 days from date of purchase. Read more

This content is from our 2021 Build Beyond Conference. Build Beyond is an annual clinical conference for mental health professionals working with survivors of trafficking and exploitation. The conference focus was focus is understanding and developing treatment strategies for “bottoms”; victims whose survival strategies include recruiting others. By procuring this content, you will have access to the material for 90 days from date of purchase. Read more

This content is from our 2022 Build Beyond Conference. Build Beyond is an annual clinical conference tailored to mental health professionals working with survivors of trafficking and exploitation. The 2022 conference focus was understanding familial trafficking and exploring treatment strategies within complex family systems. In addition, there was a special ethics session as it pertains to working with survivors of trafficking. By procuring this content, you will have access to the material for 90 days from date of purchase. Read more

Normative sexual behavioral practices for adolescents are often difficult to define and assess. Youth experiencing commercial sexual exploitation often struggle to define and utilize personal sexual agency to develop sexual health. Informed by an ongoing research project, this presentation utilizes sexual agency to help assessors and providers engage youth and support their active involvement in their assessment and treatment planning. Sexual agency is defined as a youth’s ability to navigate the bodily concerns, personal values, family and social decisions related to their sexual agency. Participants will learn to design treatment strategies emphasizing sexual agencies, improving problem-solving skills, and matching sexual practices and beliefs with personal, family and community values. Learners have access to the course for 90 days following purchase. Read more

Youth victimized through commercial sexual exploitation experience a significant number of traumas and chronic stress during their lives before the commercial sexual exploitation. Commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) then creates an additional layer of complexity. The purpose of the presentation is to describe the complexity of trauma experienced by victims of CSE and the implication for treatment planning. The presentation utilizes a review of approximately 155 psychological evaluations to identify trauma, chronic stress, critical social history, and mental health symptoms for youth with complex trauma.  Read more

This training introduces and describes how to utilize the Ascent 121 Commercial Sexual Exploitation Needs Instrument - 4th Edition. The training explains the 20 factors comprising the CSENI, teaches you how to rate each of the factors, and utilize those factors to design a treatment plan. Read more