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PRACTICAL COUNSELLING SKILLS FOR BEGINNERS |
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Course
to be held in Christchurch in June 2008 -
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IN AUSTRALIA - Sydney & Melbourne |
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Sydney
April and August & Melbourne July 2008
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IN SOUTH AFRICA |
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Annually - Contact David for Dates and
Venues -
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IN USA |
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Annually - Contact David for Dates and
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IN CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND
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Adolescent Suicide
Adolescent Depression
Practical Counselling
Skills
Adolescent Grief & Loss Counselling
Adolescents Group Work with Adolescents
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This Group Work course is intended for:
Professionals who have been counselling for at least 12
months, or teachers, social workers, human
services workers who want to extend their
group facilitation skills.
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Aim:
To provide a practical skills course for professionals wanting to work with
adolescents in a group setting.
Course Content:
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- Establishing the need for a group
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- Variations of group purpose
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- Group planning
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- The referral process
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- Group boundaries
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- Coping with crisis
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- Facilitation style and effectiveness
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- Accountability and supervision
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- Termination of the group
This weekend will be experiential and exploratory. Each member will participate in
running part of a group facilitation process.
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Course Programmes
Counselling Adolescents
- What is an adolescent?
- Adolescent issues
- Self care of the adolescent worker
- An introduction to working individually with adolescents
- Qualities for an effective adolescent worker
- Appropriate skill usage with adolescents
- The role of a counsellor in an adolescent setting
- Motivations, assumptions and perceptions
- Establishing the adolescent counselling relationship
- Practical application of skills
-Termination of the adolescent counselling relationship
Adolescent Depression
- Defining adolescent depression
- Causes of depression
- Difference between teen and adult depression
- Early warning signs
- Signs and symptoms
- When being different brings on depression
- Adolescent sexuality and depression
- Checklists for depression
- How to work with the depressed adolescent
Adolescent Grief & Loss
- Defining grief and loss for adolescents
- How adolescents grieve
- Different grieving situations
- Adolescent emotional responses
- Adolescent behavioural responses
- Adult responses to adolescent grief
- Unfinished business
- Adolescents adjusting to loss
- How to work with a grieving adolescent
Adolescent Suicide
- Suicide identification - how to recognise it
- Suicide risk assessment
- Issues of confidentiality
- Issues of counsellor responsibility
- Issues of adolescent client's responsibility
- Theories regarding adolescent suicide
- Working with suicidal young people
Practical Counselling
Skills for Beginners
This course is intended
for professional people who would benefit from practical basic counselling
skills and who have minimal or no training in this area e.g. those working
in the human resources, education, health or social services etc.
Course Profile: We will be taking a client-centred approach to
counselling using micro-counselling skills. We will be covering basic
counselling skills, and hands on supervised practice, and, most important,
intend to make it fun and interactive.
This course has been adapted to cover an ongoing weekly training over 4
months into 2 week-ends to accommodate people’s busy life styles. |
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N.B. All those wishing to attend the above courses must either work with adolescents in a professional relationship and/or have counselling
experience |
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N.B. As some parts of these training courses are of an experiential nature, please inform the trainers if you have experienced any traumatic events
within the last year.
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Times:
Course commences at 9.30am and concludes at 4.30pm each day.
Tea and coffee will be provided but you will need to bring your own lunch.
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Location:
To be advised when dates are set. |
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All these
trainings can be offered at different locations
worldwide Contact David for more details
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