Special Populations: Children and Adolescents
- Objectives
- Uri Brofenbrenner’s Socio-Ecological Theory of development
- Sociological Influences (Risk and Protective Factors) on Youth Mental Health
- Physical (Body and brain), cognitive and psychosocial stages of child and adolescent development
- Unique developmental and mental health issues for adolescents using the PACER approach
- Impact of mental ill-health on young people
$149.00 for 365 days - Objectives
- Identify the major psycho-social milestones for each age group
- Learn about things that may thwart development
- Identify protective factors for healthy development
- Conceptualize behaviors as goal-driven in order to better understand their purpose and provide appropriate redirection
$18.00 for 90 days Objectives:
- Define resilience
- Explore characteristics of Resilient People
- Identify how to help people become more resilient
- Highlight activities which can help people deal with unpleasant events when they happen
Based in part on Counselor Toolbox Episode 384
$6.00 for 90 daysObjectives
- Explore the developmental tasks and needs of the infant stage (0-2 years old)
- Maslow (Biological and safety needs)
- Erickson (Trust vs. Mistrust)
- Bowlby (Attachment)
- Piaget (Cognition/schema formation)
- Discuss how failure to get these needs met can result in later mental health issues
- Discuss how failure to resolve the trust vs. mistrust crisis results in later mental health issues
- Discuss how infant’s primitive cognitive abilities develop dysfunctional schemas for later in life
- Examine how the child is starting to develop self esteem through initiative and independence
- Explore what can go wrong in each stage and what can be done to repair damages now.
- Review developmental tasks children accomplish at each stage
- Examine how children’s thinking patterns are different than that of both toddlers and adolescents
- Explore ways to assist children and teens in enhancing their self esteem
- Introduce Kohlberg's theory of moral development
- Examine how teens thinking patterns are different than that of both pre-teens and adults
- Review Kohlberg's theory of moral development
$24.00 for 90 days- Explore the developmental tasks and needs of the infant stage (0-2 years old)
Objectives
- Learn about the effects of obesity on health and mental health
- Identify best practices for addressing obesity in childhood
$6.00 for 90 daysObjective
- Define complex trauma.
- Highlight the cost of complex trauma.
- Examine the impact and diagnostic issues of complex trauma.
- Continue discussing impact of complex trauma on children and adolescents.
- Identify the function of presenting symptoms.
- Learn to apply practical tools to aid in teaching new skills and tools and helping the patient improve quality of life.
$12.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Define Psychological Flexibility
- List the Main Principles of Psychological Flexibility
- Identify the Components of Psychological Flexibility
- Describe How to Teach Psychological Flexibility
- Explain the Short Cut Question
$6.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Identify the developmental tasks of adolescents and what can be done to facilitate those
- Review unique points to remember when dealing with adolescents
- Identify protective factors
- Identify antecedents to high risk behaviors
- Brainstorm ways to address antecedents with the individual, in school, in communities and in families
$6.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
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Identify the CARES approach to creating secure attachment
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Explore the needs of children in infancy, early childhood and middle and high school to identify
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Challenges
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Ways to promote secure attachment in an age-appropriate manner
$6.00 for 90 days-
Objectives:
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Move from a deficits based to a differences based approach to interaction
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Describe the unique interpersonal needs of people with autism spectrum disorders
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Identify characteristics necessary to form secure attachments
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List at least 5 practices that caregivers and teachers can use to improve connection with children on the autism spectrum.
$6.00 for 90 days-