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Engaging and Supporting Young People

The workshop is for anyone who finds themselves in a youth centre, class room, rehab centre, youth refuge, school or just sitting in a car driving somewhere with a young person (because that’s part of your job too). Working with young people means catching their attention, firing their imaginations, doing ‘something’ so they will connect with what is happening and how it is happening. And sometimes the young person seems angry, apathetic, bored or grumpy. So what we do must be... [More]

Engaging and Supporting Young People

Tue 23 May - Wed 24 May 2023
9:30am - 4:30pm (UTC+10:00)
2 sessions, 14 hours total

Peter Slattery

When	Time	Where	Session Notes
Tue 23 May 2023	9:30am - 4:30pm (UTC+10:00)	Rooms 1 & 2 - Level 9, 110 Sussex St, Sydney
Wed 24 May 2023	9:30am - 4:30pm (UTC+10:00)	Rooms 1 & 2 - Level 9, 110 Sussex St, Sydney

Engaging and Supporting Young People

Mon 13 Nov - Tue 14 Nov 2023
9:30am - 4:30pm (UTC+11:00)
2 sessions, 14 hours total

Online course

Peter Slattery

When	Time	Where	Session Notes
Mon 13 Nov 2023	9:30am - 4:30pm (UTC+11:00)	Online room - Online course
Tue 14 Nov 2023	9:30am - 4:30pm (UTC+11:00)	Online room - Online course

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Adolescent Risk Taking

We know things about young people that we didn’t know even a little while ago. Peer group pressure is more internal than external, thrill-seeking is still thrill-seeking but more driven than previously thought and more important for young people than for children or adults. Young people really can think logically and systematically, although unfortunately not always at those moments when it is most needed. Recently, two things have contributed to what we know about adolescents.... [More]

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Mental Health and Adolescents - Mad, Bad or Sad?

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Mental Health First Aid Youth

This Mental Health First Aid course will teach you how to provide initial support to Young People who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis, using a practical, evidence based Action Plan. This course is based on the expert consensus of people with lived experience of mental health problems and professionals. Learn about the signs and symptoms of the common and disabling mental health problems in young people, where and how to get help when a young... [More]

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Mental Health First Aid

Everybody Hurts Sometimes – Anger Management Tools and Strategies for Young People

Develop the skills to recognise, understand and respond to anger in adolescents. This workshop looks at helping teenagers to manage anger, explores what constitutes anger, how it develops, and examines a range of practical strategies and techniques that can be used to help young people gain control of their anger. When a person believes he or she has been treated unfairly or is deliberately provoked, anger usually results. In terms of survival, anger can be looked at as choosing... [More]

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Risky Business: Self harm and suicide risk assessment

“Real world” strategies to manage and support those who may be self harming and/or suicidal. Learn about mental health issues and responding to high-risk behaviours, duty of care, professionalism, ethics and confidentiality and the importance of worker self care. [More]

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Drug Use and Young People: Change and Choice

The workshop is for anyone working with young people where substance use is a concern. This workshop is not about drugs – it’s about understanding both a young person’s inner and outer worlds, and what drives drug use in terms of who a person is and the world they personally live in. With this as background, the workshop is about firstly understanding drug use in terms of our society generally; secondly what it might mean to each individual person; and thirdly what we can offer... [More]

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