Working with Young People in Groups
6 August 2024, 9:00am - 12:00pm AEST
In this 3 hour live, online course we will focus on how to think about, structure, and run counselling groups for children and adolescents.
Peter will bring his experience leading hundreds of groups for youth between the ages of 10 - 13 years old. He will also be sharing aspects of a curriculum he has developed with a colleague entitled "Belong and Be You" (in press, Routledge).
Additionally, you can see how this curriculum links directly to what we know are the foundational developmental tasks of young adolescents.
You 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:
Peter Mortola, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Counselling, 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 counselling setting.
This course counts towards 3 hours of category A CPD.
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