Helping Children With Sexual Behavior Problems

A Guidebook For Professionals And Caregivers

This is a companion booklet to Understanding Children's Sexual Behaviors - What's Natural and Healthy

This 44-page booklet contains straightforward, easy-to-read information in the following areas:

• What everyone helping children with sexual behavior helping problems  (CSBP) should know


• Modifying children's problematic sexual behaviors - preparing the home environment; provide a healthy sexual environment; encourage healthy boundaries; some guidelines for healthy boundaries; make the home feel safe for all of the children; be clear regarding acceptable behaviors

• Working together to decrease the child's problematic sexual behavior - developing a plan to decrease one problematic sexual behavior at a time; playing detective - what triggers the selected problematic sexual behavior?; together the caregiver and child work out the fine detaiils of the plan and implement it; after implementation, carefully review and revise when necessary

• Masturbation

• Parenting CSBP - talking about sex with children; listen and respond to the child; parenting with patience and compassion; special issues for all parents and substitute caregivers; especially for substitute caregivers

• Assessment and treatment of CSBP and their families - assessment of CSBP; goals for parents and substitute caregivers of CSBP; individual therapy for CSBP, parents/caregivers. and other family members; group therapy for the CSBP, parents/caregivers, and other family members; family therapy; placement

• Cooperation and communication between all team members - working with school; day care; after school programs; CPS; Probation

• References 
  

• Helpful resources on children and sexuailty