Working with sexual offenders' survivor issues:learning from the past

This course focuses on survivor issues for male sex offenders and how these impact on the present. It offers a model of individual and groupwork drawn from the Wolvercote Clinic's 'Learning from the Past' group.

Course Overview

The exercises outlined in this course address the key areas of survivor work. In addition to offering manualised exercises, it will also focus on techniques for effective delivery.

Course Aims

• To teach participants how to open up sensitively an area of an offender's past experience that may link with the patterns of offending he has developed
  
  
• To teach participants how to engage those sex offenders who are also survivors of abuse in looking at their past experience, its relevance to the present and also looking to the future in terms of changing behaviour
  
  
• To examine how behaviours which were functional in meeting childhood survi8val needs may be dysfunctional in the present, and how the offender can learn to meet fundamental needs in non-abusive ways
  
  
• To teach participants how to help the offender identify which behaviours he learned in childhood, is still using now and might need to change
  
  
• To outline a programme of individual and groupwork and how this links with sex offender treatment programmes
  
  
• To offer participants an opportunity to practise exercise from the Wolvercote Clinic 'Learning from the past' Programme