For Educators and Professionals working with Children & Adolescents
If you are an educator or other professional working with children and adolescents, the Spring lineup of courses will be of interest, including:Zero to Six
Steve Zwolak, MEd and Lourdes Henares-Levy, MD
Tuesdays, February 28, March 6 and
Wednesdays, March 14, 21, 28 and April 4, 2012
6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Institute Classroom A
CME/CE/Clock Hours: 9.0
Fee: $150
This course will explore the powerful emotions behind behaviors. One case will be presented in depth from six different angles: development, trauma, attachment, attunement, termperament, and neuroscience. Designed to be practical and useful, this course features an exchange of ideas and real stories. Tips for managing difficult children will be offered.
Objectives:
1. Describe how biology impinges on personalilty development
2. Describe the salient developmental accomplishments during the first through sixth years of life
3. Describe how attachment is created and explain how separations effect development
4. Predict the affects of maltreatment in children
5. Demonstrate understanding of childhood development and apply it to work experience
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Adolescent Passage
Jacqueline Langley, PhD
Tuesdays, April 10, 27, 24, May 1, 2012
7:00-8:30 pm
Institute Classroom A
CME/CE/Clock Hours: 6.0
Fee: $120
Working with adolescents as a therapist, counselor, parent or teacher can be exhilaratiang and challenging. The Adolescent Passage series of seminars will first explore the passions, fantasies and thoughts residing in today's adolescents from the perspective of the internal world of the adolescent. From this understanding, participants will learn how the adolescent passage can be thrown off course resulting in symptoms of depression, anxiety, substance abuse disorders, eating disorders and bullying.
Treatment approaches in response to these symptoms will be identified and applied to the school setting as well as the therapists's consulting room.
Objectives:
- Describe the psychologocial and behavioral changes that occur in each sub-stage of adolescence.
- Explain why an adolescent's difficulty coping with the intensity of newly discovered feelings could result in symptoms of depression and/or suicide.
- Define the role of temperatment in adolescent development
- Recognize how an adolescent's inabililty to cope with difficult feelings may result in symptoms of substance abuse and eating disorders.
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Group Supervision for Educators and Professionals Working with Children
Supervisor schedules are still being formulated. Check back to this site frequently for updates, or contact Cathy Krane at csk@stlpi.org or 314-446-3043.
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