Assessing Sexual Risk
This course is designed to inform and enable social workers to assess potential risk in the field of child sexual abuse. The emphasis will be to encourage individuals to gain confidence through practice.
Course content:
- Models underpinning assessment work
- Changing offender behaviour – an understanding of therapeutic intervention
- The interview and contexts
- Offence analysis
- Assessing sexual knowledge and attitudes
- Assessing distorted thinking
- Assessing victim empathy
- Assessing self-esteem
- Assessing impact or abuser’s own victimisation
- Assessing relationships and intimacy
- Management of risk
- Examining working methods – the assessor / perpetrator dynamic