Sibling Sexual Abuse

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Event type Live Stream

Webinar, via Zoom
17:00 - 18:30 UK time, 18:00 - 19:30 CET

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‘Sibling Sexual Abuse’ will be led by Stuart Allardyce, a social worker, and Director of the child protection charity, Lucy the Faithfull Foundation, and Stephen Barry, a social worker and Clinical Team Manager/Lead for the CAMHS based multi-disciplinary Be Safe Service within Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health NHS Partnership Trust. This is webinar is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group.

Booking

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£5 ACAMH Learn Account holders

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About the webinar

Sibling sexual harm is perhaps the most common form of intrafamilial sexual harm, yet cases involving sibling sexual abuse can be very challenging for practitioners and agencies including those in CAMHS, Education, Social Care and the Criminal Justice System. Sibling sexual abuse is often not disclosed in childhood and has a detrimental impact on all involved. Sibling sexual harm has the potential to be every bit as harmful as sexual abuse by a parent; it can have both short- and long-term consequences for the child’s physical and mental health, with outcomes for children affected and their families often being poor.

This workshop will outline current knowledge and evidence in the sibling sexual abuse field and look at how that knowledge can be used to inform how we positively support a family’s journey, from identification of harm, safety planning and assessment, through to therapeutic intervention, case closure and aftercare support. Consideration will be given to the needs of those impacted by sibling sexual harm with an illustrative case example provided.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop participants should be able to use the continuum of sexual behaviour to identify when sibling behaviour is harmful, understand common issues for children and families affected by sibling sexual abuse and have insight into approaches to assessment and intervention in this area of practice.

About the speakers

Stuart Allardyce

Stuart Allardyce is a social worker, and Director of the child protection charity, Lucy the Faithfull Foundation. He is chair of NOTA UK and Ireland, and a social worker who has worked with families affected by sibling sexual abuse for more than 20 years. He is co-author of ‘Working with Children and Young People who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour’ (Dunedin Press, 2018) as well as ‘ Sibling sexual abuse: A knowledge and practice overview’ (2021) and ‘Sibling sexual behaviour A guide to responding to inappropriate, problematic and abusive behaviour’ (2023). He is a visiting researcher at the University of Strathclyde, the author of over 20 book chapters and journal articles on adolescent harmful sexual behaviour and a member of the Scottish government’s senior leadership group on tackling child sexual abuse.

Stephen Barry

Stephen Barry is a social worker and integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor, accredited with Social Work England and UKCP. He is the Clinical Team Manager/Lead for the CAMHS based multi-disciplinary Be Safe Service within Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health NHS Partnership Trust. Be Safe provides assessment and therapeutic intervention services for children and young people who have displayed problematic or harmful sexual behaviour, their parents/carers and support network around them. Be Safe offers consultation and training to professionals. Stephen has extensive experience in the harmful sexual behaviour field and has a particular interest in trauma and attachment. Stephen has had a number of advisory roles including for the SARSAS/Rape Crisis Sibling Sexual Abuse Project and the Guidance on Sibling Sexual Behaviour developed by the Centre for Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse.

Booking

Sign up at this link or on the Book Now button at the top of the screen, and complete the form that follows. You’ll then receive an email confirmation and a link to the webinar, plus we’ll send you a calendar reminder nearer the time. Delegates will have exclusive access to recordings for 90 days after the event, together with slides. Plus you will get a personalised CPD certificate via email.

  • ACAMH Members MUST login to book onto the webinar in order to access this webinar and get a CPD certificate
  • Non-members this is a great time to join ACAMH, take a look at what we have to offer, and make the saving on these sessions

FREE for ACAMH Members (Print, Online, Concession, Undergraduate/Postgraduate, LMIC) Join now and save

£5 ACAMH Learn Account holders

£5 Non Members

Don’t forget as a charity any surplus made is reinvested back as we work to our vision of ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and our mission to ‘Improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 0-25’.