Online Child Sexual Abuse: What the data tells us about the connection to teens’ peer relationships

This Lunch and Learn series is a monthly, 1-hour, high-octane focus on the emerging issues for clinicians and allied professionals working with children and youth engaging in problematic sexual behaviors. This is a collaborative effort between MACA and MASOC.

As the technological tools available to us have evolved and diversified, our field has rightly focused on the ways technology can facilitate harmful sexual behaviors. Very often, though, everything from the popular imagination to policy interventions zooms in on “stranger danger” online and harm to children and adolescents by adults. Dr. Finkelhor will explore what the data on online sexual abuse involving youth tells us about peer dynamics, clinical impacts, effective policy, effective prevention strategies, and the tools we need for working with youth, as clinicians and as a field.

November 19, 2024 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST. Register here.