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Young People – Care settings
A large part of the work of Studio III Clinical Services involves working with children and young people who challenge.
We currently work with young people in care in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors with the aim of re-integration and social inclusion. Many of these service users are young offenders and we are part of the multi-disciplinary team working towards steering individuals away from vulnerable environments and into sustainable lifestyles.
The various elements of support available are :
- Initial as well as more complex assessments for individuals children and young people (including psychological, cognitive, psychiatric and systemic aspects)
- One to one work and counselling with individuals and within group settings
- Proactive and Reactive Behaviour Management Plans tailored to the individual
- Care plans, interventions and therapies together with monitoring and evaluation of effectiveness
- Follow up reports and ongoing assessments
- Liaison with outside agencies and professionals
- Staff support and training to help empower carers to make assessments, enhance their counselling skills, monitor and improve the effectiveness of care plans themselves
- One to one or group work with staff members to assist them in coping with their work pressures
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Geraint is a 13 year old young person who is currently in a foster placement. His foster parents had noted that he lacked social skills, and could be verbally (sexually) inappropriate. At social clubs he would gravitate towards younger females, and not interact with his peers. In addition to this, Geraint was occasionally displaying physically aggressive behaviour, and recently had damaged public property, resulting in him receiving a six month referral order.
Geraint’s foster parents and social worker contacted Studio III Clinical Services and requested a full assessment of his therapeutic needs, as well as an assessment of his knowledge and understanding of (sexual) relationships and sexuality.
Geraint was assessed using a number of different tools. The QASCO and a Psychosexual Assessment were used to consider his sexual knowledge and attitude to several areas, such as rape, exhibitionism and offences against children. A series of questionnaire designed for young people assessed topics such as self esteem, locus of control and his thoughts about his life and his family. Lastly the WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) was used to assess Geraint’s cognitive abilities. This allowed an exploration of his ability to sequence events in his life and assess his understanding of consequences, as well as a number of other pertinent areas.
The assessment indicated a number of concerns which would not necessarily have been highlighted otherwise. For example, the assessment illustrated that Geraint had strong beliefs regarding the function of some sexual behaviours e.g. that they were used to obtain power / control. However, Geraint minimised the impact of these behaviours, seemingly in order to justify them. This in addition to his difficulties in understanding the consequences of his behaviour (shown on the WISC assessment) and his strong locus of control (shown in the young people’s assessments) indicated an area of work which was essential.
There were a number of other recommendations which were highlighted due to the assessment, including support for Geraint’s foster carers in managing his behaviour through the use of proactive and reactive strategies; thorough risk assessment in terms of his sexualised behaviour, as well as psychotherapy for Geraint.
To date Geraint is progressing well. Studio III, in conjunction with Geraint’s social worker, foster parents and school conducted a multi disciplinary meeting which drew up strategies for managing Geraint’s behaviour as well as developing a risk assessment. Geraint himself is undertaking psychotherapy and has been able to begin to understand some of his early experiences.
