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What will your child’s counsellor do? Your child’s counsellor should be a specialist in child sexual abuse with a good knowledge of both victim and offender behaviour. The counsellor will help your child do three important things: Deal with both the molesting behaviour and a possible and of sexual abuse underlying the behaviour. Help change the faulty attitudes and weak self-esteem at of the sexual acting-out. Develop healthy sexual attitudes. With your help the crisis can become an opportunity for change and growth. Children develop sexually at their own rate and in their own way provided their development is not disrupted. Both parents and teachers have a critical role to play in identifying and helping children who are molesting other children. Your worst fear may be that the molesting child will grow up to be an adult sex offender. It doesn’t have to turn out that way. The more that counsellers can help children talk about their behaviour, the more likely they are to stop.
