Curious about the sexualized behaviour your child/youth may be displaying. The Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre offers a specialized counselling program that helps children and youth up to age 18 who are presenting with individual sexual behaviour problems or concerns.

Children and youth develop in many ways, but lots of things might affect a child’s/youth’s sexual development, leading to some concerning sexual behaviour. Sexual behaviours may become a problem if they are harmful to the child/youth or others, occur between children/youth of very different ages or developmental levels, or take the place of typical childhood activities.

In the session today, our Child Therapist will give a short 15min overview of the sexualized behaviour program and frequent concerns and conversations. We will then leave 45minutes of time for participants to privately and publicly ask questions and join in discussion with our clinical expert.

CASASC believes that concerning sexual behaviour can serve a number of functions for children and youth, so understanding the behaviour and how and why it is occurring is important. Sexual behaviour concerns, or sexually acting out, looks very different for different people.

At CASASC, we recognize the potential risk of allowing sexualized behaviors to go untreated. The child becomes at risk for becoming a victim to victimizer; causing harm to him/herself and others. Early intervention and supportive parenting can prevent the cycle of sexual abuse.