Working with Adolescent Clients Around Issues of Confidentiality and Sexual Coercion

Recorded: December 7, 2009

About This Audio Conference

This audio conference will provide family planning clinical and educational staff information and resources for working with adolescent clients. In this 90 minute session, sexual coercion will be defined, and strategies for identifying coercive situations will be discussed. Texas reporting requirements will also be covered.

About the Speaker

Erica Bisgyer Monasterio, MN, FNP

Erica Bisgyer Monasterio is a clinical professor at the UCSF Dept of Pediatrics and Nursing. Her expertise is in working with high risk clients in community-based settings and the development and monitoring of primary care programs which serve marginalized populations. Her special interests are in the areas of sexuality, risk assessment, and behavior change.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify strategies for explaining confidentiality to a minor;
• Define sexual coercion;
• Recognize indicators of unwanted sexual contact;
• Assess and determine situations that require reporting of sexual coercion under Texas law.