The service is designed for 12- to 18-year-olds who are "unmanageable" at school or care settings because of their behaviour.
The programme is led by a consultant psychiatrist and aims to address issues that cause the behaviour such as dealing with trauma following sexual abuse.
Other symptoms the team will deal with include obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance misuse and attachment difficulties.
Inappropriate behaviour by young people with disabilities will also be addressed.
A spokeswoman for the Priory Ticehurst House, the East Sussex-based hospital that is running the programme, said: "Children and adolescents who have a learning disability, a physical disability, who have been abused or have experienced other disruptions to their social and physical development, are at increased risk of developing inappropriate sexual behaviours.
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