ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates how to collaboratively impart information related to human functioning generally and sexual abuse specifically. It considers good practice, with regard to using case studies in rehabilitative ways. Psycho-educational initiatives are commonly used with individuals who have committed sexual offending, often as part of a rehabilitative programme within the criminal justice system. Psycho-educational interventions can be particularly effective with those who have been sent to counselling to specifically raise their awareness of risk management issues and impact of sexual offending on victims. The client can additionally be asked to reflect on why many people prefer to think that sexual abuse is usually committed by strangers and monsters, and not by ordinary individuals in family situations and friendship groups. The use of psycho-educational interventions may be foreign to many counsellors and therapists and the sort of reflection, insight, and consciousness raising which they are designed to encourage may be achieved through the free-flowing talking method, or experiential exercises.
