A one week course to support professionals from different backgrounds in their work with challenging adolescents.
Organising tutors
Simonetta Adamo and Antje Netzer-Stein
Course aims
• Explore the challenges and psychodynamics of working with adolescents and their families.
• Think about the developmental stage of adolescence with the major internal and external changes involved.
• Understand the anxieties that can be aroused in yourself, clients and colleagues when working with disruptive adolescents.
• To raise awareness of the role cultural and ethnicity issues can play in work with adolescents.
• To consider the most relevant and appropriate ways of engaging with adolescents and their carers.
Is this course for you?
• Aimed at professionals in various roles and from wide-ranging backgrounds who work directly with adolescents and their families or carers.
• You will have the opportunity to present accounts of your work experiences in small work discussion groups.
• There will be lectures on issues relevant to the work with adolescents.
• One film will be shown and discussed.
• There will be a large group discussion to explore relevant themes further.
Time commitment
One week (Mon - Fri), full-time.
14 - 18 July 2008
How to apply
Contact the course administrator for an application form or download from below.
Closing date for applications
13 June 2008
Contact details for further information
020 8938 2651
gbahel@tavi-port.org
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Information on fees can be found here
