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2025 SPTA Coalition Webinar: Children with Problematic Sexual Behavior: Who Are They and How Can We Help?
1/24/2025
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST

Event Description
This special workshop is presented by a coalition of 15 State, Provincial, and Territorial Psychological Associations (SPTAs)
1.5 Hours of Category I CE credit
Friday, January 24th, 2025, 1:00-2:30 pm, ET


Children with Problematic Sexual Behavior: Who Are They and How Can We Help? 
At this event, participants will learn to differentiate between typical and problematic sexual behavior in children and adolescents, identify research-supported components of treatment, recognize common misconceptions, and develop strategies to educate and engage professionals across disciplines to better serve children and adolescents, their child victims, and their caregivers.

Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Describe guidelines and strategies for differentiating between typical and problematic sexual behavior in children.
2. List at least three common misconceptions regarding children with problematic sexual behavior.
3. Identify risk and protective factors for children with problematic sexual behavior.
4. Apply the concepts of typical and problematic sexual behavior in children in clinical practice.


Presenter Bio:  Erin Taylor, PhD
Erin Taylor, PhD, is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. She completed her doctoral work at the University of Missouri and her undergraduate work at Vanderbilt University. Her primary clinical interests include assessment and treatment of children exhibiting problematic sexual behavior and who have a history of experiencing trauma. In addition, her research interests focus on the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatments (EBTs) for underserved populations youth.

Dr. Taylor is currently the program coordinator and lead clinician for the Treatment Program for Children with Problematic Sexual Behavior (PSB) for preschool children, and she has previously served as a lead clinician in the PSB Programs for school-age children. She is a Master Trainer in the University of Oklahoma Problematic Sexual Behavior – Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy model for school-age children and provides training to students, as well as state and regional providers. In addition, Dr. Taylor has been trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), an evidence-based treatment (EBT) for children and adolescents impacted by trauma and their parents or caregivers; she is currently completing training and certification for Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) model. During her graduate training, Dr. Taylor received training in Multisytemic Therapy (MST), an intensive, in-home family therapy model for youth engaged in antisocial or delinquent behavior and was supervised by the model co-developer.

In addition to her clinical activities, Dr. Taylor is actively involved in multiple research projects focused on children and adolescents exhibiting problematic sexual behavior. Over the previous two years, she has contributed to numerous projects focused on the implementation of EBTs for children exhibiting problematic sexual behavior, adaptations of EBTs, youth engagement in electronic and online sexual behaviors (e.g., sexting, viewing online pornography), parenting practices, collaboration efforts across multiple professional systems (e.g., law enforcement, child welfare, mental health) who work with youth exhibiting PSB, and EBT adoption in community providers.


Dr. Erin Taylor

Special Note to Conference Attendees

This program is co-sponsored by the New Hampshire Psychological Association, the Oklahoma Psychological Association, and the Indiana Psychological Association. NHPA and IPA are approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NHPA and IPA maintain responsibility for this program and its content.


Indiana State Psychology Board and Indiana Behavioral Health Board:
  • IPA is an approved provider of Category I continuing education for psychologists.
  • IPA is an approved provider of Category I continuing education for LSW, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LMFTA, LCAC and LAC.
Licensees must judge the program’s relevance to their professional practice.
 
Please note that APA rules require that credit be given only to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the scheduled start time or leaving early will not receive CE credits. Partial credit cannot be given. We ask that all participants return the post-program evaluation form at the conclusion of the program. Dr. Taylor and IPA have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program.
 
The program is expected to be available as an IPA homestudy program post-event. Fees for the homestudy program will mirror live event fees.
 
Registration Fees
IPA Student Members $0
IPA New, Premier, Platinum, Emeritus-Practicing $30
IPA Basic, Emeritus-Retired Members, and Affiliate Members - $45
Non-Members - Psychologists and Other Professionals $55
*If a non-member Student seeking to attend, please either join IPA (free membership with "sponsorship" by an IPA Academic Member or, if outside the state of Indiana, please contact info@indianapsychology.org.