Working effectively with troubled and
troublesome teenagers
A one-day course with tutor: Richard Brook
Course outline:
A lively day that clarifies what healthy teenage development looks like, why things can go wrong and how to help young people overcome obstacles and begin to create lives that work well. This is an intensive and varied programme that focuses on gaining skills.
Tutor, Richard Brooks, brings a practical and humorous approach to the bewildering array of models currently directed at front-line workers. By working with the 'givens' of human nature, and ensuring that knowledge of how people really function is applied intelligently to teenagers, he shows how you can speed up progress and bring them real benefits. You will find yourself more empowered to respond effectively to each individual’s needs, temperament and learning style, whilst avoiding the emotional pitfalls of working in stressful situations.
| What you will gain from the day: | |
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Essential knowledge, skills and the increased confidence you need to deliver effective interventions to young people, both individually and in groups; |
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An expanded repertoire of skills and a refined understanding of what works and most importantly, why; |
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A clear and logical foundation upon which to structure creative and effective interventions; |
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A range of simple and effective techniques for engaging young people, building rapport and promoting behavioural changes, and the opportunity to try them out; |
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Increased understanding of the human givens approach, and how the insights it brings can dramatically improve interventions and their outcomes. |
Who should attend?
Teachers, youth workers, mentors, drug workers, social workers, schools counsellors, educational psychologists, primary mental health workers, all members of youth offending teams, youth justice workers, police and probation officers, prison staff, residential and foster carers and anyone who works directly with young people promoting sport and outside activities.
Course programme:
Registration: 8.30am to 9.30am (Tea or coffee before 9.25am)
9.30am – What’s the trouble?
Hormones, brain cells, trauma, temperament and the modern world: a look at the various factors that help or hinder healthy adolescent development, including the sometimes surprising benefits to young people of indulging in risky, unhealthy and anti-social behaviour. How the principles of the human givens approach can help us to make sense of problematic behaviour. We look at research that puts teenage troubles in context and challenges common perceptions of the state of adolescence.
11.00am — Refreshments and discussion
11.30am – How to communicate with teenagers
Tackling the tricky problem of building rapport with uncommunicative adolescents. How to get the most out of standardised assessment models by sifting for relevant information. Ways of motivating young people to set realistic and achievable goals. We practise some important communication techniques and search for a young person’s strengths using a light-hearted case study: exercise.
1.00pm — Lunch (included)
2.00pm – Practical problem solving
Discovering and building on young people’s strengths – demonstration of a valuable group exercise on problem solving. How to focus young people’s attention on their attributes rather than their problems. How to prepare a structured intervention for a young person or group using human givens principles. Generating creative activities: exercise.
3.00pm — Refreshment and discussion
3.30pm – How to help them create a life that works well
How to project your work with young people into their everyday lives. Why imagination is such an important tool for self-development. Using stories and metaphors. Strategies to engage young people’s imagination. How to harness the mental rehearsal techniques of sports stars and performers to help young people change patterns of behaviour and achieve their goals. Four vital guiding principles that ensure your work with young people is relevant and effective.
| BRISTOL: | Date: Wednesday 13th June 2012 Venue: Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol Times: Each day starts at 9.30am and ends at 4.30pm Course Code: BR07 |
| LONDON: | Date: Wednesday 26th September 2012 Venue: Regents College Times: Each day starts at 9.30am and ends at 4.30pm Course Code: BR08 |
| PRICE: | £160 plus vat (£192) per person. Fee includes tuition, course notes, attendance certificate, lunch
and refreshments
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Thinking of booking 5 or more courses? |
To book by phone, call: 01323 811690
Alternatively, you can download an application form and post or fax it to:
Human Givens College,
Chalvington,
East Sussex,
BN27 3TD
fax: 00 44 (0)1323 811486
Also see, How to Book.