Presenter:
Michael Seto, Ph.D

Date and Time:
Friday, September 26, 2025, 3:00pm – 3:50pm Eastern Time (1 hour)

Cost: FREE to SAARNA Affiliates and Trainers (See NOTE below.)
$25.00 for non-SAARNA Affiliates (Note that SAARNA affiliation costs a mere $25.00!)

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Description of Event:
Men whose only sexual offences involve child sexual exploitation materials (CSEM) present special concerns for risk assessment. This presentation review recent research on the CPORT, which is the most commonly used and most researched actuarial risk tool for men with a history of CSEM offending. The presentation will cover a recent review of risk assessment tools for CSEM offending, an unpublished meta-analysis of CSEM sample recidivism rates, updates on CPORT recidivism norms, and a new study of the construct validity of the Correlates of Admission to Sexual Interest in Children (CASIC; a companion measure to the CPORT). Proposed changes to CPORT item scoring, and implications for evaluators will be discussed. 

Michael Seto, Ph.D., C.Psych., is the lead author the CPORT (with Angela Eke).  He is a registered clinical and forensic psychologist, Research Director at the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto and Carleton University. He has published extensively on pedophilia, sexual offending against children, and online sexual offending. He was a member of the Paraphilia Review Group for DSM-5-TR and winner of ATSA’s 2018 Lifetime Significant Achievement Award. He has published two excellent books with the American Psychological Association: Pedophilia and Sexual Offending Against Children (2008, second edition in 2018), and Internet Sexual Offending (2013, second edition in 2025). [If you miss the presentation, at least read the books! RKH]

Notes for Participants:
Training delivered via Zoom. Duration is 1 hour.

Maximum number of seats: 500

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