Working effectively with young people in residential care who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 2 days
Maximum number of participants: 24
Suitable for:
Residential managers, residential social workers, residential childcare professionals, therapeutic providers and education staff.
Objectives:
This two day course is aimed at professionals who want to increase their understanding of young people who display harmful sexual behaviour; focusing on their needs, evidence based practice, risk management, defensible decision-making, and issues regarding the professional response.
The course will cover:
- What is sexual abuse and how it differs from developmentally appropriate sexual behaviour.
- The principles of Every Child Matters and the Good Lives model and their role in working with young people with sexually harmful behaviour.
- How to evidence patterns of behaviour, strengths and concerns and the role of observation.
- Identifying helpful responses to challenging and sexualised behaviour.
- Risk management with young people with harmful sexual behaviour in the context of defensible decision-making.
This course can be organised for teams in their locality. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Delegates testimonials:
"Just the right size to feel comfortable asking questions and contributing"
"Very engaging training, good personal examples to help clarify points"
"Good mix of videos, care examples from the experienced trainer"
"Really good training - lots of information and lots of ideas about how to go about managing and working with young people with harmful sexual behaviour"