Description
(4 CPD Points)
Date: 3 April 2020
Time: 08h00 – 12h30
Place: 4A 12th Ave, Parktown North, Johannesburg
Price: R780-00
Presenter: Dr Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs
Course Outline:
It is not easy being a teenager in 2020. Academic pressure, social trends, fitting in and still liking yourself when your body is constantly changing is hard. Teenagers are awkward, moody and misunderstood. Often parents do not know how to help their teenage children, they feel overwhelmed and seek help from helping professionals by bringing their teen for therapy. Teenagers often enter therapy resistant and reluctant because they have been brought by their parents or told to come by a teacher. Steve de Shazer states that there are three types of clients:
- Customers- they seek therapy willingly,
- Visitors- they come to therapy because someone else thinks they need help and
- Complainants- they come to therapy to blame someone else.
Teenagers are often visitors or complainants to the therapeutic space, and it takes skill to turn them into a customer of therapy. This short course will look at creating therapeutic buy-in and collaboration. Solution Focused Therapy believes that we treat the person and not the problem and thus this course will give you some valuable ideas on how to treat the young person and not the presenting problem associated with being a teen. Getting to know the teenager and utilizing what the teenager is good at, likes, is interested in and aspires to is an incredible way of breaking resistance and creating collaboration. We will explore the concept of problem free talk and how we can use the best version of the teen to work towards a preferred future.
Aims of the Course:
- Teach the basic principles of Solution Focused Therapy
- Evaluate and change the expert stance of the therapist into collaborator
- Utilise Solution Focused questions to turn a visitor and a complainant into a customer for therapy
- Use music, drawings, cartoons, time travel and the empty chair technique to create buy in for therapy
Outcomes of the Course:
On completion of the course the participants will be able to:
- Understand the principles of the Solution Focused approach
- Be able to work with resistance
- Use problem free talk as a way to build a positive relationship with teens
- Empower teens to take control of hurtful thoughts and believe in themselves again
- Guide the therapeutic space towards goals and conversations that make an impact
Recommended Reading List:
- von Cziffra-Bergs, J: 2018 Creative Solution Building. Solution Focused Institute of South Africa. Johannesburg
- Selekman, M; 2017: Working with high risk adolescents. The Guilford Press: New York
- Selekman, M; 2010: Collaborative Brief Therapy with Children. The Guilford Press: New York
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