Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents

Analyse the developmental issues in childhood and adolescents.

Appraise familial, cultural and special developmental contexts of children and adolescents.

Assess ethical and professional issues in counselling children and adolescents.

Formulate problems presented by children and adolescents.

Recommend appropriate counselling approaches to working with children and adolescents.

Select appropriate psychotherapy skills for use in counselling children and adolescents in local contexts.

What You'll Learn

This course provides a practical introduction to developmental, familial, cultural, ethical, practical, and theoretical approaches to counselling children and adolescents. It examines both theoretical and technical components of child and adolescent psychotherapeutic work across a common structural-procedural psychotherapeutic process.