Description:

OPD Points: 5

In this workshop, Dr. Vernon will describe and demonstrate a variety of ways to expand your interventions and strategies to positively impact your young clients, having an opportunity to discuss how they can apply these strategies with their own clients. In addition, participants will collaborate with others in small groups to develop an original intervention and share it with all workshop participants. The focus will be on practical, creative techniques that can readily be adapted to address a variety of presenting problems. If you have some knowledge of CBT and are in a health, helping or teaching profession. (e.g. Psychologists, Nurses, SW, OT, counselling, Educators, Physicians, Speech therapists) you will be combining your existing skills, whether you are a beginner or extending on your existing knowledge when working with young people incorporating creative or expressive arts interventions into the counselling process.

Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:

This is a very practical workshop with participants set to learn creative interventions including

  • The top twelve reasons for using creative arts interventions with young clients
  • Types of creative arts interventions and advantages of using them
  • Specific, developmentally appropriate interventions for helping children and adolescents deal with internalising disorders: anxiety, depression, perfectionism, and self-downing
  • Specific, developmentally-appropriate interventions for helping children and adolescents deal with externalising disorders: anger, acting out, procrastination

Assessment:

Presenter / Provider:

Dr Ann Vernon

Presenter Qualifications:

Ann Vernon, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, University of Northern Iowa, and immediate past president of the Albert Ellis Institute.

Dr. Vernon has worked therapeutically with children and adolescents for many years in private practice and has completed an intensive grief recovery training through the Grief Recovery Institute.  She is a prolific author who has focused on developing effective interventions for a variety of internalising and externalising disorders, integrating the creative arts and REBT.  Dr. Vernon has presented hundreds of workshops related to counselling children and adolescents in the United States as well as internationally, and she is considered a pioneer in applications of REBT with younger populations.   

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Course Duration:

1 day(s)

Course Hours:

4 hours

Registration Instructions:

https://www.cbtaustralia.com.au/workshops-bookings/p/creative-arts-interventions-with-children-and-adolescents-online-march-28

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