Using strengths-based approaches with sex offenders

A course for practitioners working with offenders on a one-to-one basis

Our one-day workshop explores a range of strengths-based approaches, which can be used by probation officers, psychologists, social workers and residential workers in their work with sex offenders, and the roles these methods play in reducing risk effectively.

This training course provides you with a greater understanding of how you can encourage offenders to manage their own behaviour and avoid reoffending.
Throughout the day, you will be given the opportunity to explore the issues using individual case studies as well as to discuss your own case examples.

Course aims

The course looks at practical ways in which strengths-based approaches can be applied to your work with sex offenders (or suspected sex offenders) in order to help them meet everyday challenges.

With a specialist background in offender treatment and management, our course facilitators will explain ways to:

• Work with denial, minimisation and resistance
• Identify resources from an offender's life-line which can be used to manage risk
• Help sex offenders break or avoid cycles of offending
• Raise sex offender's awareness of appropriate sexual boundaries
• Formulate personal risk management and family safety plans 

The formulation of risk management or safety plans can also be used to consolidate and augment statutory licence conditions, supervision plans and child protection agreements.

The theories and methods covered on this course include solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, narrative therapy and the 'Good Lives' approach*.

Course trainer:    Dr Andrew Smith
Course Dates:    22 Apr 2010 (Surrey)
Course cost:     £155 including VAT & lunch

Download a brochure here and for more details or to reserve your place call Nicola Wathen on 01527 591922.

*The Good Lives Model
Ward,T & Gannon, T 2006