It is important for you to understand the way that many sexual abusers groom victims and others – and to be able to recognise the kinds of sports culture in which abusers can more easily operate. This will help you to prevent it happening.
It’s impossible to see inside someone’s head – to know whether they have good or bad intentions. You can’t see motivation and thoughts. However, the grooming process involves behaviours by individuals, and these are visible. You can see behaviours and act when you see unacceptable behaviour to stop it from happening. This is why it is important to include grooming behaviour in your code of conduct, which you will explore later in the course.
Let’s practise identifying the difference between someone’s behaviours and their motivating thoughts.
Identifying behaviours and motivating thoughts
Look at each statement in the tile below and move it to the appropriate box – Behaviours or Motivating thoughts.
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Show description|Hide descriptionThere are two boxes. One is labelled behaviours. The other is labelled motivating thoughts. You have to decide which box the following statements fit in to. Arranging to take a child to training in their car. Always giving the special tasks to their favourite athlete. Regularly going into changing rooms while the team is getting changed. Giving an athlete money or other gifts. Sending texts to a child’s phone. Making arrangements so the athlete is alone with them at the end or at the beginning of training sessions. Sending a social media friend request to a child athlete. Thinking about what an athlete looks like naked. Feeling excited to see that a child idolises them. Interpreting an athlete’s need for attention as a weakness to exploit. Enjoying the feeling that the children will do anything they are told. Believing that a child enjoying attention is encouraging inappropriate sexual behaviour. Identifying all the athletes they think could be potential victims. Being sexually aroused in the company of a child or by the idea of being in its company . The correct answers are as follows. Arranging to take a child to training in their car [behaviour]. Always giving the special tasks to their favourite athlete [behaviour]. Regularly going into changing rooms while the team is getting changed [behaviour]. Giving an athlete money or other gifts [behaviour]. Sending texts to a child’s phone [behaviour]. Making arrangements so the athlete is alone with them at the end or at the beginning of training sessions [behaviour]. Sending a social media friend request to a child athlete [behaviour]. Thinking about what an athlete looks like naked [motivating thoughts]. Feeling excited to see that a child idolises them [motivating thoughts]. Interpreting an athlete’s need for attention as a weakness to exploit [motivating thoughts]. Enjoying the feeling that the children will do anything they are told [motivating thoughts]. Believing that a child enjoying attention is encouraging inappropriate sexual behaviour [motivating thoughts]. Identifying all the athletes they think could be potential victims [motivating thoughts]. Being sexually aroused in the company of a child or by the idea of being in its company [motivating thoughts].
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Were you able to correctly identify which were behaviours and which were thoughts? You need to focus on individuals’ behaviour as a way to prevent or intervene in the grooming process.
