Child sexual abuse and the internet

Tom Squire, Lucy Faithfull Foundation

A course for those working with internet sexual offenders

Our one-day workshop explores all aspects of internet offending and will benefit social workers, offender managers and other practitioners involved in the assessment and risk management of internet offenders.

This training course provides an insight into how the internet is used as part of sexually abusive behaviour and explores practical ways in which associated risks can be assessed.  It also looks at intervention methods for internet offenders and their families.

The course provides you with a greater understanding and awareness of:

• The different types of internet abuser
• The different ways in which abusers use the internet
• The relationship between internet offending and 'hands on' offending
• Ways to develop robust and effective Family Safety Plans

It also provides a greater awareness of the range of possible responses when internet offending comes to light and how best to respond.

Drawing upon current research and our own treatment work with internet offenders and their families, our course facilitators will explain:

• The facts about pornography and the internet
• How children commonly use the internet
• The types of internet offender
• Research on recidivism and suitable assessment methods
• How to formulate intervention plans
• Suggested preconditions for family reconstruction

Throughout the day, you will be given the opportunity to explore the issues using a series of practical case studies as well as to discuss your own case examples.

Date: 19 August 2010

Venue: Birmingham

Cost: £155 including VAT & lunch

For further information please click here for a brochure, go to www.lucyfaithfull.org or phone Nicola Wathen on 01527 591922

Using strengths-based approaches with sex offenders

Dr Andrew Smith, Lucy Faithfull Foundation

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.

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 and the 'Good Lives' approach (The Good Lives Model, T Ward & T Gannon 2006)

Date: 26 August 2010

Venue: Bristol

Cost: £155 including VAT & lunch

For further information please click here for a brochure, go to www.lucyfaithfull.org or phone Nicola Wathen on 01527 591922