The Youth of Today

Children and Young People Foundation Certificate (11-18 years)

This course will be run on demand. If six or more participants wish to undertake the training, it will be run from 04 May 2024

Closing date for the course will be 19th April

An Introduction to Working with Young People – Course

Working with teenagers can be a very rewarding experience, but it also comes with its own challenges and legal parameters. These CPD studio evenings are designed to enrich your counselling training to support your work with teenagers.

This highly successful course was first run in April 2019 in line with the BACP criteria for working with children and young people.

This course looks at areas relating to how the brain changes in adolescence, the legal framework relating to working with children and young people and much more.

Over six sessions participants will:

Discuss as a group ways to engage young people in therapy
Work in pairs to consider their own adolescence
Consider ways of working across a whole institution
Explore pharmacological issues, ADHD, drugs and alcohol
Learn and understand the legal parameters for working with teenagers
Learn to build resilience in the client and the counsellor
Explore the neuroscience of the teenage brain
Participate in play therapy, sand tray and other techniques
Learn to recognise trauma in young people
Find out more about ADHD, depression, anxiety, relationships and other challenges
Engage in play to better understand the important role it plays

Event dates (22 direct taught hours):

Saturday 18 May 2024
Saturday 15 June 2024
Saturday 13 July 2024
Saturday 07 September 2024
Saturday 05 October 2024

Course times:

10am – 12.30pm
12.30pm – 1.30pm Lunch break
1.30pm – 3.30pm

Price:
The cost of this course is £850 for the full course (refreshments included).

Please download, complete and return the event booking form. We require dietary needs information and acceptance of the event terms and conditions.

Please note: Award of the course certificate requires completion of a 3000 word case study.

The following feedback was received from the students who attended the 2019 course:

Many thanks again for putting on such a useful and interesting course.

Really useful – Many thanks again for the course it’s been so interesting and I’ve met lots of new people!

11 out of 12 would recommend the course to others and thought they were well equipped to work with children and young people.

Our studio events are for qualified or second year Diploma counselling students. The aim is to build on knowledge already gained in the field of counselling.

For more information please contact us using the form below.