This course aims to provide “real world” strategies to engage and support young people with high-risk behaviours, those who self-harm and/or are suicidal. This course is aimed at anyone who works with, or has contact with, people who self-harm and/or have high-risk behaviours, placing themselves or others at risk. Participants will learn about: What is Self-Harm? Why some people use self-harm as a "coping strategy" Self-harming and suicidal behaviours – how these develop,...
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$260Limited
GST free
Self-Harm and Suicidal Behaviours: Responding to Young People
<p>{image name:“AASW CPD Endorsed Logo” align:“right” width:“100” height:“100”}</p><p>This course aims to provide “real world” strategies to engage and support young people with high-risk behaviours,
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....
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$260Limited
GST free
Adolescent Risk Taking
<p>{image name:“AASW CPD Endorsed Logo” align:“right” width:“100” height:“100”}<br/>{image name:“ACA-recognised” align:“right” width:“100” height:“100”}</p><p>We know things about young people that we
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...
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$260Limited
GST free
Drug Use and Young People: Change and Choice
<p>{image name:“AASW CPD Endorsed Logo” align:“right” width:“100” height:“100”}</p><p>The workshop is for anyone working with young people where substance use is a concern. This workshop is not about
Young people often attract labels in the form of a mental health diagnosis – mental illness, disorder or disability. This workshop explores the meaning of these labels and considers the special needs of young people with mental health issues and aims to provide an understanding of current treatment approaches and ways to promote mental health and wellbeing. Participants will explore the real life experiences of young people with mental health issues using case studies and video...
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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...
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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...
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In NSW in June 2018 the adult prison population stood at 13,630. The majority of these prisoners serve short sentences and are then released in to community. In 2015-2016, 299 young people aged 10 years and older were detained in NSW Juvenile Justice detention Centers. After release these people access a wide range of community services and typically present with multiple, complex and specific transitional needs. Through the use of interactive, adult learning activities,...
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Clients with Complex Support Needs Clients with Complex Support Needs can have difficulties that span a number of areas, including some or all of the following: disability, trauma, health, education, behaviour as well as social issues within their lives – a product of their life situation and the potential failure of the structures that support them. Working with clients with Complex Support Needs involves a planned, strengths-based approach, building a working relationship that...
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Goal setting can be challenging. It can be challenging for adults and often even more challenging for young people who may not be thinking past the immediate future. How can we encourage and motivate young people to start thinking about planning ahead so that they are prepared for change, adulthood and the future? How can we work with young people who are feeling hopeless, unmotivated and unimportant? Coaching is the answer. It can add a new set of skills to your current practice...
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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...
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