Children and Young People with Harmful Sexual behaviours

Hackett, Steve Flood Simon

doi:10.1002/9780470976586.ch9

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“…Evidence of on-line prevalence more specifically comes from McAlinden (2012), who found from her interviews with criminal justice personnel within the UK, including police officers, that peer-to-peer grooming involving sexting and cyber bullying among the 13-to-17 year old age group accounts for an increasing number of cases involving indecent images of children. This broad claim is further supported by data showing increases in the number of cases of Internet sexual offending brought to the attention of law enforcement agencies (CEOP, 2013) and referrals of youth displaying HSB via social media for treatment with HSB services (Hackett, 2014).…”

Section: Harmful Sexual Behaviour Among Young Peoplementioning

confidence: 89%

“…Thus, the empirical foundation for understanding it is limited (McAlinden, 2012). Nevertheless, records from front-line practitioners and service agencies indicate that it is not uncommon (Hackett, 2014). Some of the most recent manifestations of grooming have occurred in "sexting" and in "street" or "localised grooming" in which young girls "groom" others into exploitative or abusive networks (Montgomery-Devlin, 2008;Ost and Mooney, 2013).…”

Section: Peer-to-peer Groomingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In his reviews of intervention models, Hackett (2014) recommended ones that are developmentally sensitive, individual, and holistic, based on strengths and attend to both risks and needs. However, wide differences amongst models have lead to eclectic designs being adopted by service providers and practitioners (McCrory, and Walker-Rhymes, 2011).…”

Section: Changing Harmful Sexual Behaviour Through Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…News reports, stories from front line practitioners, a body of research on the topic and statistics on prevalence provide ample evidence that young people engage in sexual abuse and exploitation with enough frequency to make these behaviours a problem that both society and service professions should acknowledge and address (Hackett, 2014). However, before service providers can respond sufficiently they will need to take into account how norms for sexual behaviour of young people and the norms for content in communications about personal and sexual matters are continually changing, and at a very rapid pace.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Young people, peer-to-peer grooming and sexual offending

Ashurst¹,

McAlinden

2015

Probation Journal

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There is ample evidence that young people are using social media in grooming and bullying to abuse and exploit others sexually with enough frequency to make those behaviours important concerns for both society and care providers. This article provides a critical overview of the conceptual and theoretical foundations for 'grooming' among peers and use of social media within harmful sexual behaviour. It introduces a model for intervention based on the literature on memory, bundles, thinking and problem solving and highlights how the suggested model may be applied in practice.

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Section: Harmful Sexual Behaviour Among Young Peoplementioning

confidence: 89%

Section: Peer-to-peer Groomingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Changing Harmful Sexual Behaviour Through Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Young people, peer-to-peer grooming and sexual offending

Ashurst¹,

McAlinden

2015

Probation Journal

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“…Whilst there is no direct or linear relationship between experiencing childhood abuse and going on to perpetrate acts of sexual abuse (Freidrich, 1998), high levels of abuse are noted in almost all samples of sexual abusers.  The sex education available to ALDs may be limited and insufficient (Hackett, 2004). Even when high quality sex education is provided by schools, the nature of ALDs may mean that it is difficult for such adolescents to translate concepts which they have been taught in a classroom into their everyday behaviours -particularly in situations where they may be sexually aroused.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reproductive health knowledge and sexual behaviours of adolescents with learning disabilities in Ibadan North local government area, Oyo State

J.A¹,

P.E²

2016

Educ. Res

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Adolescents with learning disabilities (ALDs) are prone to various challenges of reproductive health. These challenges are similar to what their regular counterparts do experience. It is unfortunate that as a minority, ALDs' challenges hardly receive attention of researchers and intervention providers. As a result, unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections and sexual abuses usually leave more prolonged and serious consequences on them than those experienced by their regular counterparts. This study therefore attempted to explore knowledge and sexual behaviours of ALDs in a Nigerian city. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. A purposive sampling technique was used to select 210 adolescents with learning disabilities in Ibadan North Local Government Area (LGA) of Oyo State, Nigeria (105 males, 105 females). Two research instruments were used; namely The Pupil Rating Scale (r=0.62) used in screening for learning disabilities and an Adolescent with Learning Disabilities' Reproductive and Sexual Behaviour Inventory (r=0.89). Four research questions were postulated, descriptive statistics and simple percentages were used for the data analysis. Findings showed that among ALDs, the most common source of information on reproductive and sexual behaviour was mass media (29.0%), and the age for experiencing first sexual intercourse was highest at early adolescents (11.9%), followed by the middle adolescents (9.0%) and then the late adolescents (4.3%) . The general knowledge on reproductive health was high among ALDs (86.7%), though access to reproductive health facilities was low, as 52.9% had never visited any reproductive health facility, 21.0% had had sexual intercourse and also 23.3% had been sexually abused. Consequently, the study recommended that sexuality education should be introduced and intensified in the various schools, particularly, the early ALDs to minimise the incidence of sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancies and STIs. Further,, mass media should serve in disseminating information on sexuality to ALDs.

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The role of presence when working with children and young people demonstrating harmful sexual behaviour

Cranbourne‐Rosser

Campbell

Pilkington

et al. 2020

Couns and Psychother Res

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Working with children and young people (CYP) demonstrating harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) is complex and requires understanding of the dual identity of 'victim' and 'victimiser'. Working with such experiences can impact on therapeutic processes, such as 'presence', a phenomenon manifesting from connection and momentto-moment awareness. Research into presence generally focuses on working with adults. This study explored presence when working with CYP demonstrating HSB. Eight practitioners were interviewed focusing on their lived experiences of presence in terms of personal perception, cultivation, and influence on practice and sustainability. Interviews were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis, which resulted in two main themes: 'presence and person' and 'presence and place'. Findings suggested that in addition to presence and the therapeutic relationship enhancing each other qualitatively, presence provides a platform of connectivity from which to engage, promotes working from a whole-person perspective and assigns deeper meaning to the work; cultivation requires opportunities to identify, enhance and embrace the phenomenon in order to promote self-awareness and utilise presence effectively with others; practitioner well-being and sustainability requires application of self-care strategies and robust workplace support; and the development of a safe and productive presence-informed service requires suitable processes and procedures to be established. These points are considered in terms of implications and future recommendations for practice and policy. K E Y W O R D S children and young people, harmful sexual behaviour, practitioner well-being and sustainability, presence, therapeutic relationship 1 | INTRODUC TI ON Working with CYP demonstrating HSB requires practitioners to engage with material associated with trauma and other adverse life events (Barnardo's Cymru, 2014; Bellis et al., 2015), while responding to their needs through specialist assessments and psychotherapeutic interventions. This requires sensitivity, resilience, compassion and expertise, along with an ability to build and maintain a sound therapeutic relationship while remaining present throughout. Enduring presence in this way offers both benefits and challenges | 581 CRANBOURNE-ROSSER Et Al. for practitioners' own practice and well-being (Baker, 2016; Geller, 2013). Although the phenomenon of presence, defined as a deep sense of connection and moment-to-moment awareness (Geller, 2013), has been explored in relation to psychotherapeutic practice (Crenshaw & Kenney-Noziska, 2014; Stern, 2004) and wider health-related professions (Schmidt Bunkers, 2012), a critical review of the literature highlighted a gap in the research regarding presence and working with CYP demonstrating HSB. Therefore, research into presence when working with this client group was germane and conducted by focusing on the role, cultivation and influence of presence on practice and practitioner sustainability.

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Children and Young People with Harmful Sexual behaviours

Cited by 71 publications

References 28 publications

Young people, peer-to-peer grooming and sexual offending

Young people, peer-to-peer grooming and sexual offending

Reproductive health knowledge and sexual behaviours of adolescents with learning disabilities in Ibadan North local government area, Oyo State

The role of presence when working with children and young people demonstrating harmful sexual behaviour

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