Hear NSPCC practitioners talk about conducting therapeutic sessions with children and young people and understanding how to manage incidents of harmful sexual behaviour.

You'll hear us discuss:

creating safe spaces in therapeutic session and using different techniques and strategies
providing clarity around confidentiality and safeguarding when working with children and young people
managing expectations of assessments
their own experiences of working with children and young people.

This episode touches on our practitioners’ experiences of working directly with children and families. 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

> See our resources for understanding, preventing and managing incidents of harmful sexual behaviour

> Listen to the second episode in the series on planning therapeutic sessions

> 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

43: Direct work with children displaying harmful sexual behaviour