Upcoming Courses

Title: Understanding & Managing Sexualised Behaviour in Children & Adolescents in Foster Care and Residential Settings
Presenter: Kieran McGrath, Child Welfare Consultant
Venue: Radisson Blu Hotel, Ennis Road, Limerick
Date: Tuesday 24th May 2011
Time: 9am to 4pm (Registration from 8.30)
Cost: €100*


Sexualised behaviour in children and adolescents is increasingly presenting challenges in residential and foster care settings. These problems present major difficulties for both carers and child protection social work services. The aim of this Workshop and Practice Clinic is to provide a venue for carers and professionals to inform themselves on this topic and to explore different approaches to dealing with sexualised behaviour in children and adolescents. The day will be divided in two parts with the first part dealing with defining and distinguishing the range of different behaviours that can be encountered. Themes to be looked at will include:

• What is normal sexual behaviour?
• When is sexual behaviour a problem and for whom?
• Distinguishing Normal, Problematic and Abusive behaviours.
• Planning appropriate interventions. Making Residential and Foster Care settings safer.

PRACTICE CLINIC:
The second section will consist of a Practice Clinic which will allow participants to bring their own, appropriately anonymised, cases for discussion and intervention planning. For the purposes of time management, participants with specific queries should indicate, in advance, if they wish to have one of their current cases discussed. Places limited.

This event will be of particular interest to social care staff, foster carers, social workers and psychologists.

PRESENTER:
Kieran McGrath, Child Welfare Consultant, is the author of the recent CARI publication: “Understanding & Managing Sexualised Behaviour in Children & Adolescents” (2010). He previously worked as Principal Social Worker and Assistant Director in St Clare’s CSA Assessment & Therapy Unit, Children’s University Hospital, Temple St., Dublin. He is also an accredited trainer of the “Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Prevention of Sexually Abusive Behaviour in Childhood and Adolescence” course developed by Gail Ryan of the Kempe Children’s Centre, Department of Paediatrics, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado.

Fees: *(Non-refundable if cancelled within 48 hours of date of event)
Contact: Nuala Duffy or Rita Boyle at 01 8308529 or email training@cari.ie Please download a booking form here download booking_form_limerick.pdf

PREVIOUS COURSES

Title : A Theory of Interaction for Individual and Group Psychotherapy

(Goal-Corrected Empathic Attunement*)

Facilitator :Una McCluskey DPhil
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist & Senior Research Fellow, University of York

The process of affect attunement, identification, arousal and regulation within the instinctive biologically-based systems of care-seeking, care-giving, interest-sharing, sexuality and self defence

The CARI Foundation can host this one day workshop, which provides an opportunity for clinicians of all persuasions to examine the minutiae of interaction between themselves and the people who come to them for help. It is open to all those who are qualified in the field of health and social care and who have a counselling or therapeutic background.