Working with assessing risk linked to harmful sexual behaviours

This working with event seeks to upskill the counselling and psychotherapy workforce with best practice evidence-based approaches when assessing risk when working with clients who present with harmful sexual thoughts or behaviours.

This conference will be suitable for practitioners seeking to:

  • Develop their knowledge and awareness in how to work safely and effectively when harmful sexual thoughts and behaviours are shared through therapeutic work
  • Increase awareness when working with risk when intrusive thoughts are shared in therapy
  • Increase their awareness around the intersections of aspects of EDI and religion, and spirituality
  • Gain a basic understanding of technology assisted harmful sexual behaviours and the impact this has on children and young people and on others
  • Guidance on best practice when working with clients who have been charged with sex offences
  • An understanding of specialist services available to support this work 

The event will include 3 presentations followed by a Q&A session after each presenter.

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Programme

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9.30am - 9.40am

 Welcome & Introductions
9.40am - 10.40am

The importance of safe spaces when working with children and young people with harmful sexual behaviours, presented by Carol Carson
10.40am –10.55am Break
10.55am –11.55am Working with clients where a fear of behaving in a sexually harmful way is symptomatic of the client’s own childhood trauma, presented by David Futter
11.55am –12.10pm Break
12.10pm –1.00pm Stop-So (STOP-Sexual offences), presented by Antounette Philippides
1.00pm Event close

This programme is subject to change.

Presentation information

The importance of safe spaces when working with children and young people with harmful sexual behaviours

9.40am – 10.40am

This workshop will give an overview of current practice which uses trauma informed, holistic models and new developments with regard to technology assisted HSB (TA-HSB) and Autism and HSB.  

It will also consider how counsellors can be important in providing a safe space for children and young people to explore worries they may have about their sexual interests and thoughts. 

Working with clients where a fear of behaving in a sexually harmful way is symptomatic of the client’s own childhood trauma

10.55am – 11.55am

Mankind UK are A BACP Accredited Service who predominantly work with male survivors of sexual abuse. As part of this work, a small percentage of clients fear that will go onto abuse others. This workshop will include best practice around assessing risk and working with clients affected by their own trauma. 

Mankind UK will share the workshop space with a survivor’s story who will co-deliver the workshop with them. They will clearly set out when to refer on for more specialist interventions but will focus on working in what some counsellors may feel are ‘grey areas’. 

Downloading of the presentation slides will be made available on the day here.

Stop-So (STOP- sexual offences)

12.10am - 1.10pm

StopSO offers a UK-wide independent network of suitably qualified and experienced professionals who are trained to work with potential sex offenders, sex offenders, survivors and their families.   

During the presentation they will discuss how we can focus therapeutically on risk and look at how to best work with sexual harm and its consequences:

  • those at risk of sexual offending or concerned about their behaviour 
  • non-offending persons experiencing inappropriate thoughts/feeling 
  • those who have been cautioned, charged with or convicted of a sexual offence 
  • those who are fearful of re-offending 
  • those who are in prison 
  • partners and families of the above 
  • survivors of sexual abuse 

The presentation will include anonymised case studies of best practice work.