Caring for pre-pubescent children who display sexually inappropriate behaviours
Summary:
This course is designed for foster carers and professionals supporting and working with carers. It focuses on the care of pre-pubescent children and will be of use to experienced or new carers. Residential carers will find the course useful in their work, although a separate course is also offered for this specialised service.
The course aims to help carers and practitioners distinguish between ‘normal’ sexual development and those behaviours that elicit adult concerns and present a risk to the child or others. It will focus upon explaining why children develop such behaviour; assessment skills; assessment and intervention work with children and carers; the needs and feelings of children, carers and professionals; intervention and risk management strategies; and on how to provide safe and therapeutic care environments for children. The course will involve a mixture of taught material, exercises, demonstrations and handouts.
Course aims:
- To enable participants to distinguish between ‘normal’ sexual development and problematic sexual behaviours
- To highlight the myths and realities around this area
- To help carers explore their feelings, values and personal issues about child sexuality
- To provide an understanding of why and how children develop sexualised behaviours
- To provide an understanding of the needs that underlie such behaviour
- To identify the key care and therapeutic needs of such children
- To help participants identify and evaluate risk
- To provide ideas for risk management and safe care
- To help carers identify when specialist assessment / intervention is required
- To consider the requirements of child protection procedures
For further information and to discuss your individual needs please contact the Training Co-ordinator on 01527 591922 or email: training@lucyfaithfull.org.uk