Law and Mental Health: Treatment Considerations for Non-Offending Individuals with Pedophilia

Law and Mental Health: Treatment Considerations for Non-Offending Individuals with Pedophilia -Natalie Ross, PsyD Dr. Natalie Ross is a forensic psychology postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where she completes competency to stand trial evaluations and research to inform policy development. She earned her bachelor’s degrees in psychology and Spanish from Mercer University and worked in a children’s home with juvenile sex offenders prior to pursuing her doctorate. She completed her predoctoral internship at Atascadero State Hospital, a maximum-security forensic psychiatric hospital, and earned her Psy.D. in clinical psychology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Ross has conducted forensic evaluations with adults and juveniles within civil and criminal courts under the supervision of a licensed psychologist. Broadly, her research interests include pedophilia and patterns of sexual offending. Dr. Ross is particularly interested in severe mental illness and how it intersects with the criminal legal system. Learning Objectives: 1. Distinguish differences between pedophilia and related constructs, such as pedophilic disorder, minor attracted persons, chronophilias, and sexual offending. 2. Describe client-centered goals and outcomes for non-offending individuals with pedophilia seeking therapy. 3. Identify potential ethical dilemmas associated with providing therapy to non-offending individuals with pedophilia. Please note: CEUs, CEs, and CMEs, as well as Certificates of Completion are not available from viewing recordings. In order to be eligible for credit, trainings and presentations must be attended live. Views expressed during this training or presentation do not reflect those of the University of New Mexico. Copyright Notice All Rights Reserved. All material appearing on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube (“content”) is protected by copyright under U.S. Copyright laws and is the property the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences or the party credited as the provider of the content. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any such content, nor may you distribute any part of this content over any network, including a local area network, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database. You may not alter or remove any copyright or other notice from copies of the content on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube. Copying or storing any content except as provided above is expressly prohibited without prior written permission of the University or the copyright holder identified in the individual content’s copyright notice. For permission to use the content on the University’s website, please contact [email protected]. Disclaimer The content contained in University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube is provided only for educational and informational purposes or as required by U.S. or N.M. law. The University attempts to ensure that content is accurate and obtained from reliable sources, but does not represent it to be error-free. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences may add, amend or repeal any policy, procedure or regulation, and failure to timely post such changes to its website shall not be construed as a waiver of enforcement. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences does not warrant that any functions on its website will be uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, or that the website will be free from viruses or other harmful components. Any links to third party information on the University’s YouTube are provided as a courtesy and do not constitute an endorsement of those materials or the third party providing them.