44: Planning therapeutic sessions for children displaying harmful sexual behaviour

NSPCC Learning Podcast

Continuing on from episode 43, social workers and children’s practitioners, Katy Tomkinson and Rowan Wolfe, talk about planning therapeutic sessions and assessing children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour.
You’ll learn more about:

• preparing therapeutic session plans and helping children explore their life experiences through the use of timelines, family trees and cartoons
• addressing sensitive topics such as sex and HSB, and exploring children and young people’s understanding around consent.

This episode touches on our practitioners' experiences of working directly with children and young people. Although all experiences are generalised, they could be upsetting for some, and may cause distress.
Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.
💬 About the speakers

Katy Tomkinson is a qualified social worker who has worked at the NSPCC for over five years. She has undertaken assessments of therapeutic need and provided therapeutic interventions for young people who have been sexually harmed.
Rowan Wolfe has worked at the NSPCC for fifteen and a half years as a qualified social worker. She has worked with children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour by undertaking assessments and providing therapeutic interventions.
📚 Related resources

> Browse our resources for understanding, preventing and responding to harmful sexual behaviour

> Listen to the first episode in this series on direct work with children

> Listen to the third episode in the series on technology-assisted harmful sexual behaviour

> Listen to our episode about harmful sexual behaviour in schools

Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros