Description
This 48 hour online certificate is for newly graduated therapists and counsellors who want to work with children/youth.
At the end of this certificate participants will:
- Review theoretical base of psychotherapeutic counselling
- Review social and emotional development of young people.
- Explore the ethical and professional aspects of working therapeutically with children and adolescents
- Work therapeutically with children and young using the arts and play.
Participants need to have access to internet and a computer to access modules in the learning management system
Module 1: Intake, Assessment, Consent and Documentation
Module 2: The impact of trauma on Attachment styles, child and adolescent development.
Module 3: Examine key theoretical perspectives in counselling and psychotherapy for children/youth including the psychodynamic, the humanistic and the neuroscientific
Module 4: Working eco-systemically with children’s networks and contexts honouring the social location of the child
Module 5: Directive and non directive play approaches
Module: 6: Expressive Arts
Module 7: Case Conceptualization
Module 8: Therapist Self-Reflection
The fee is for the entire course. You only register online for Module 1 and as you complete assignments you are manually admitted into subsequent modules.