Description:
OPD Points: 5
Learning OutcomesBy the end of this course you will have an opportunity to:Deepen your understanding of how important group work is for children and adolescentsGain understanding of how to design an effective overall design for group work and how individual sessions link to the nextLearn specific strategies and activities for engaging youth in group workLearn methods of effective group evaluation data to share with stakeholders
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
In this workshop, we will focus on how to think about, structure, and run counseling groups for children and adolescents. I will bring my experience leading hundreds of groups for youth between the ages of 10 – 13 years old. I will also be sharing aspects of a curriculum I have developed with a colleague entitled "Belong and Be You" (in press, Routledge). Additionally, I will show how this curriculum links directly to what we know are the foundational developmental tasks of young adolescents. Participants in the workshop will gain a better understanding of child development based on the latest brain research as well as a "hands on" understanding of how to best engage youth in groups: Enhancing their social connections with others while helping them be confidently unique as individuals.
Presenter / Provider:
Peter Mortola
Presenter Qualifications:
Peter Mortola, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Counseling, Therapy and School Psychology Department at Lewis and Clark College's Graduate School of Education and Counseling, Portland, Oregan, USA. He is the author of Windowframes: Learning the art of Gestalt play therapy the Oaklander way (Routledge/Gestaltpress, 2006), the culmination of 10 years of inquiry and research on Violet Oaklander’s methods of both child therapy and adult training. Windowframes has been translated into German, Spanish, Romanian, Italian and Korean. He is also the co-author of BAM! Boys Advocacy and Mentoring: A leader’s guide to facilitating strength-based groups for boys (Routledge, 2008), and The Bear Inside (19th Avenue Press, with Illustrator Mark Molchan), a children's book about regulating strong emotions. The Bear Inside has been translated into Spanish, Bulgarian, Russian, and Sinhala language versions. For 15 years, he has also facilitated a partnership between Lewis & Clark College and David Douglas School District in which graduate students have served over 1500 sixth-grade students in the small group counseling setting.
