Learning objectives:

• Understand some of the reasons why young people might display harmful sexual behaviour
• Understand the skills and techniques to use when having conversations with children and young people and their parents/carers about harmful sexual behaviour (HSB)
• Understand what information to gather when assessing HSB in children and young people
• Know how to analyse information gathered about a child or young person’s harmful sexual behaviour to support understanding of and begin to think about next steps for managing and addressing the behaviour
• Use a formulation based approach to assessing HSB