Promoting Healthy Sexuality for Sexually Abusive Youth
January 12, 2010 Promoting Healthy Sexuality for Sexually Abusive Youth. Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections, Idaho Falls, ID.
Dr. Brown presented a full-day training entitled “Promoting Healthy Sexualtiy for Sexually Abusive Youth” sponsored by the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections. The audience was largely from their St. Anthony facility that treats general delinquent youth as well as sexual sex offenders. There were also parole officers, case managers, and school personnel from systems that work with juvenile corrections. Topics covered in the training included: What’s Your Opinion About Promoting Healthy Sexuality with JSOs; Does Our Treatment Promote Healthy Sexuality; Traditional versus Holistic/Integrated Approach to Treating JSOs; Hurt People…Hurt People — The Connection Between Childhood Trauma and Sexual Development; Exploring Our Own Sexual Learning; What Are We Striving For: Characteristics of a Sexually Healthy Adolescent; Systemic Interventions to Promote Healthy Sexualtiy with JSOs; Sex Education and Sex Education Strategies; Grooming Paranoia; Healing Attachment Wounds — Route to Healthy Sexual Development.
The training included lecture, application exercises, self exploration exercise, and numerous video clips exploring both the serious and humorous side of sexuality.