South Africa: Learn to engage adolescents in therapy by adapting techniques for their developmental phase and managing parents. Enhance your CPD with practical insights.
Engaging adolescents in therapy calls for an understanding of this developmental phase and of how technique needs to change to reach young clients. In this course, clinical psychologist Vanessa Hemp draws on her experience as Head of the Adolescent Unit at Tara Psychiatric Hospital and in private practice. She covers adolescent development, ways of modifying therapeutic technique for this age group and approaches to managing parents within the work. The course is accredited by the HPCSA for CPD points and is a good fit for South African psychologists whose caseloads include teenage clients.
Engaging adolescents in therapy requires an awareness of the challenges of this developmental phase, along with an understanding of how therapeutic technique should be modified to work most effectively with this population. Based on her extensive experience as Head of the Adolescent Unit at Tara Psychiatric Hospital and in private practice, clinical psychologist Vanessa Hemp offers valuable and clinically relevant insights into working with adolescents.
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of this talk, participants will be able to:
Describe key psychological and developmental features of adolescence relevant to therapy
Adapt therapeutic techniques to better engage adolescent clients
Understand strategies for involving and managing parents within adolescent therapy
Identify common challenges and ethical considerations when working with this age group