Working Therapeutically with Children
Workshop Details
This highly experiential two-day workshop is aimed at professionals with basic counselling skills who would like to enhance their ability to work therapeutically with children. Participants will learn the basic strategies for working with children, explore therapeutic mediums and ways to utilise them in specific situations as well as understanding the parameters of working with children in a therapeutic environment (including the pitfalls).
Learning Outcomes
- Gain an understanding of working therapeutically with children
- Increase knowledge of self when working with a child
- Identify how to create the therapeutic environment
- Integrate brain development and the effects of trauma in the therapeutic process
- Learn how to engage boys in the therapeutic process
- Understand the parameters of child therapy including confidentiality and child protection
- Practice using several therapeutic mediums through role plays and case studies
- Learn strategies and techniques to assist children in therapy