Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/05/2025
All Day
Categories
Stress, Motivation, Self-Care, and Joy
Presented by David S. Prescott, LCSW, LICSW & Janet DiGiorgio-Miller, Ph.D.
Friday, December 5, 2025 @ 9am – 12pm
(Networking begins at 8:30am)
3 APA Psychology CE’s Available
This workshop focuses on the impact of stress and the importance of self-care in our profession. Together, we’ll reflect on the results of an April 2023 survey that assessed the stress level and coping strategies of professionals working in the field of sexual harm. Building on these shared experiences, we’ll then discuss a 2025 survey that examined what stresses and motivates sex offense treatment professionals in the workplace.
The workshop places these findings into the context of other recent research on stress and anxiety and offers ideas for practical, accessible activities that people can use routinely in their work and with their clients. Most importantly, we’ll explore ways to find joy, meaning, and purpose in our work, even when our workplace is stressful.
The session concludes by celebrating the strength of community, encouraging us all to build connections and create places of belonging within our field.
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this workshop, participants will be better able to:
- Describe trends self-care activities, including those that can be shared with clients.
- Discuss recent trends in stressors and motivators in the helping professions.
- Create plans for establishing communities of connection that can provide support in the current era.
David S. Prescott, LCSW, LICSW
A mental health practitioner of over 40 years, David Prescott is the Director of the Safer Society Continuing Education Center. Mr. Prescott is the author and editor of 28 books in the areas of understanding and improving services to at-risk clients. Mr. Prescott is the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Contribution Award from the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA), the 2018 recipient of the National Adolescent Perpetration Network’s C. Henry Kempe Lifetime Achievement award, and the 2022 recipient of the Fay Honey Knopp Award from the New York State Alliance for the Prevention of Sexual Abuse and New York State ATSA. He also served as ATSA President in 2008-09.
Mr. Prescott currently trains and lectures around the world. His published work has been translated into Japanese, Korean, German, French, Polish, Dutch, and other languages. He has served on the editorial boards of four scholarly journals. He has been the co-author of the monthly NEARI and MASOC newsletters since 2007, which are read by several thousand professionals who work with adolescents who have sexually abused. Since 2011, he has served as Co-Blogger for ATSA’s Sexual Abuse blog, which has been read over 1,000,000 times and has been rated among the top blogs in the world on the topic.
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