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Sexual Abuse Issues in Therapeutic Life Story Work: Some issues to consider

Sexual Abuse Issues in Therapeutic Life Story Work: Some issues to consider

An underlying principle of therapeutic life story work is to help a child to understand and process their life histories and the decisions made about them.

Delivered by: Rob Tucker

What you’ll learn

When is it necessary to address sexual abuse in life story work
To consider whether a child needs information about sexual abuse
Considering the different needs of children with or without a lived experience of sexual abuse
Dealing with sexual abuse in birth parent histories
To understand some of the questions children often have about child sexual abuse & how to answer them
To be aware of key concepts children might need to be taught
To have an understanding of how ‘offender knowledge’ can be used in your work
To be aware of ethical dilemmas
Opportunity to ask questions and reflect on practice

Course content

Sexual Abuse Issues in Therapeutic Life Story Work: Some issues to consider

When do sexual abuse issues arise in life story work?
Do children need to know?
What might they need to know?
Common questions from children?
How to introduce the topic
Teaching key concepts to help with later discussions about sexual abuse
Using ‘offender dynamics’ to inform your work
Evidential issues
When is more applied sexual abuse work needed?
Supporting caregivers
Screening issues – when not to do the work?
Ethical dilemmas

Description

An underlying principle of therapeutic life story work is to help a child to understand and process their life histories and the decisions made about them. As part of this work we commonly teach children about issues such as neglect, substance abuse or domestic violence to help them understand why people made decisions about them. However, sexual abuse is often ignored or glossed over in life story work. This webinar considers how children whose lives have been affected by sexual abuse (either directly or indirectly), might need help to understand more about sexual abuse in order to process and understand the decisions made about them. This workshop aims to help you consider sexual abuse issues to your wider life story work.

Please Note:

• This workshop is an abridged version of a module taught on the TLSW Diploma so might repeat info given to those attending the Diploma
• The workshops focuses on adult to child sexual abuse. It does not cover peer-to- peer abuse or sibling sexual behaviour, which is the topic of a separate workshop

Requirements

Computer, tablet or smartphone to view live tuition via Zoom.

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