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NOTA TRAINING
Members and Guests are invited to a range of training giving insight to best practice and contemporary research findings. Training is delivered in-person or using the Zoom online platform and delegates are given access to a webpage where they can access and review the training materials and session record. Delegates can be provided with certificates of attendance in order to support CPD requirements.
NOTA (Scotland) Conference 2024
STIRLING COURT HOUSE, STIRLING. FK9 4LA
9th – 10th SEPTEMBER 2024
This two day conference will bring together keynote addresses and give delegates the opportunity to take part in a series of workshops.
WORKSHOPS – multiple workshops will be hosted per day
DAY ONE – 9th September – Adults
DAY TWO – 10th September – Young Persons
Pornography and harmful sexual behaviour: Why is porn an issue and how can we address it?
17th September 2024
09.00am – 13.00pm
On-line Webinar via Teams
Pornography has become a violence prevention issue we can’t afford to ignore. Arguably the most prominent form of sexuality education, pornography is shaping young people’s sexual understandings and experiences, with serious implications for their capacity to navigate relationships and sexuality that are safe, respectful and consenting. There is growing concern internationally that pornography’s influence is contributing to cultural conditions that cultivate harmful sexual behaviours.
This webinar will support participants to analyse pornography’s prevalence, nature and influence, and explore practical examples of how its influence may be addressed.
Maree Crabbe is Director of the Australian violence prevention project, It’s time we talked. She is an educator, author, filmmaker and researcher who is passionate about supporting young people, parents, schools, community organisations and governments to understand and address pornography’s influence.
Formulation Training
SCOTLAND
Geoff Tordzro-Taylor (CPsychol)
1st October 2024
09.30am – 16.00pm
Risk Management Authority
7, Thread Street, Paisley, Scotland. PA1 1JR
This training is particularly focused on supporting practitioners to use formulation to underpin the actions we take when working with individuals involved in offending behaviour.
It will include a brief overview of what formulation is, exploration of the ways in which formulation can underpin the actions we take, the advantages of using formulation in this way, and how formulation can inform the selection and implementation of risk management strategies.
It will use trainer input and group case discussions to provide the opportunity to practice applying formulation in this way.
Neuroscience, Trauma and Forensic Practice
1st October 2024
09.00am – 12.00pm
On-line Webinar via Teams
JON TAYLOR
Jon is a consultant forensic psychologist and psychotherapist who has worked in range of prison, secure hospital and community forensic settings for almost 30 years. With a keen interest in developing a rich understanding of the role of trauma and adversity in the lives of those who develop offending behaviours, Jon is committed to promoting and modelling a compassionate and co-operative approach to all aspects of forensic service provision.
PROFESSOR ANTHONY BEECH
Anthony Beech, D.Phil, FBPsS was the Head of the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK, running and developing doctoral programmes in forensic, and forensic-clinical, psychology. He has an extensive research background in criminological psychology (evaluating treatments, developing risk measures and so forth) and forensic neuroscience.
Online Sexual Offenders Presenter: Michael Sheath (CQSW, MA (Social Work)
What are they looking for? What are they running from? Looking for clues about motivation, drivers and deficits.
15th October 2024
10.00am – 16.00pm
Webinar via Teams
The offering will consider the conduct of online sexual offenders, be they downloaders of CSAM, solicitors of indecent images or groomers through the lens of Ward’s ‘Good Lives’ model. This is usually used as a rehabilitative tool, but it may also be used to explore an individual’s motives for offending, and it provides a framework for assessment that is less threatening and more productive than simply focusing on sexual drives.
A new model of online grooming: Evidence based markers of predatory motivation
Presenter:
David Glasgow
15th October 2024
10.00am – 16.00pm
Webinar via Teams
Often these techniques are technically, statistically and theoretically complex – particularly those which rely on regression and/ or machine learning. They also tend to be focused on the needs of the criminal justice system, and are unavailable to professionals working with internet offenders ‘downstream’ of conviction.
Formulation Training
SCOTLAND
Geoff Tordzro-Taylor (CPsychol)
29th October 2024
09.30am – 16.00pm
Committee Room 2
City Square, City Chambers, Dundee. DD2 3AT
This training is particularly focused on supporting practitioners to use formulation to underpin the actions we take when working with individuals involved in offending behaviour.
It will include a brief overview of what formulation is, exploration of the ways in which formulation can underpin the actions we take, the advantages of using formulation in this way, and how formulation can inform the selection and implementation of risk management strategies.
It will use trainer input and group case discussions to provide the opportunity to practice applying formulation in this way.
Developing a child sexual abuse prevention framework for the UK
Pat Branigan
19th November 2024
16.00pm – 17.15pm
Webinar via Teams
Pat Branigan is Assistant Director at the NSPCC. By discipline he’s a medical anthropologist with a background in public health. When based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine his specialism was research into sensitive health topics and he led the development of government funded national HIV and sexual health campaigns and illicit drugs research including developing the ‘Talk to Frank’ harm reduction drug campaigns. In 2016 he co-authored the UK’s first HSB framework and was commissioned to redevelop it for the National Health Service in 2019. Pat is now responsible for leading on the key elements of the NSPCC’s 10 year place-based response to the prevention of child sexual abuse and abuse and neglect of children facing adversity.