Course - A Person-Centred Approach to Counselling Young People
06 November 2008
Knock Counselling Service
Course: A Person-Centred Approach to Counselling Young People
Facilitator: Susan McGinnis
Susan is the founder of the University of Strathclyde Counselling Unit’s Counselling in Schools Project and Manager of the service in the Glasgow schools as well as Course Director for the Unit’s course on working with young people. She has been editor of the journal Counselling Children and Young People and is author and editor of the BACP Good Practice Guidance for Counselling in Schools documents in addition to contributing chapters to How We Feel: An Insight Into the Emotional World of Teenagers (Jessica Kingsley, 1997) and Safeguarding Children in Schools (Jessica Kingsley, 2008).
A long-time advocate of counselling provision for children and young people in Scotland, she has an interest in policy making and is a member of the COSCA (Counselling in Scotland) Children and Young People Working Group. Most importantly, she continues to work therapeutically with young people as a counsellor in a school.
Course Information
The course aims to enable participants to become confident, effective practitioners in counselling young people and to address the following questions:
- How does my own experience as an adolescent and an adult have an impact on my work with young people?
- Why do they act like that? How does their development inform their behaviour?
- What are they like as clients? Is it really so different from counselling adults?
- What does person-centred theory have to say about working with young people and how can it support my practice?
- What does research tell me about working with young people and how can I incorporate it into my practice?
- How can I balance confidentiality with child protection?
Dates: Saturday, Sunday & Monday 28th - 30th March 2009
Venue: Knock House Hotel, Knock, Co. Mayo
Cost: 295 (Booking Deposit 95)
Application
To apply for the course please contact:
Fiona McCarthy, Director of Counselling
Knock Counselling Service, Knock, Co. Mayo.
Tel: 094-937 5032
Email:
counselling@knock-shrine.ie
Deadline for receipt of applications: February 28th 2009
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