Workshop Description

Applying Solution Focused Therapy with Clients who have Sexually Offended or Who Pose a Sexual Risk

 

When

Friday April 4, 2025, 10am till 1pm, 2pm till 4pm

Training will be delivered over Zoom.

Trainer: Andrew Smith

Often clients with sexual offending problems suffer more profound shame because of the particular stigma attached to sexual offending. They frequently display high levels of denial and minimisation as a survival strategy, as a way of managing shame, and as a defence against being retraumatised because of their own victim issues. The day’s online course will provide counsellors, and other practitioners, with guidance on how to work constructively with such clients, enhancing safety whilst avoiding the danger of retraumatising clients or counterproductively strengthening their denial.

The course will be delivered by Dr Andrew Smith, a renowned expert in this area, who also has a Master’s degree in Solution Focused Brief Therapy. The content of the day is as follows:

• Historical, theoretical underpinning of Solution Focused Therapy
• The emotional challenges for the counsellor of being consistently solution focused with a client who has sexually offended
• Avoiding ‘Professional Dangerousness’ and collusion when applying Solution Focused Therapy in the context of sexual risk
• Making the client the expert
• The language of Solution Focused Therapy, and applying it to individuals who pose a sexual risk
• Using Solution Focused questions and techniques to clarify ‘the problem’ and to establish evolving goals
• Helping clients to find exceptions to problems associated with previous sexual offending
• Using scaling questions creatively with this client group
• Using versions of the ‘Miracle Question’ with individuals who have sexually offended
• Collaboratively using Solution Focused Safety Plan with clients to manage future risk.

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