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Single Session Thinking: Families with Children and Youth online learning & In Practice workshop - DH-ICYF 2024-25

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Learn to adapt Single Session Thinking principles to working with families with children aged 5–17 years.

The Department of Health has commissioned new training opportunities for the expanding workforce in public clinical Infant, Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health services. A key component of this initiative is to support the growing early-career workforce to work confidently and effectively with clients and their families, carers and supporters.

Under the initiative, Bouverie is delivering 5 training packages at no cost for professionals working in a publicly funded, Victorian based CAMHS/CYMHS* service. (*CAMHS: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service; CYMHS: Child and Youth Mental Health Service.)

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Eligible participants

As part of this initiative, registrations are subsidised for early-career clinicians who work at one of the following services:

Metro:

  • Alfred CAMHS
  • Austin CAMHS
  • Eastern Health CAMHS/CYMHS
  • Monash Health ELMHS
  • Orygen
  • Royal Children's Mental Health

Regional:

  • Barwon CAMHS & Jigsaw
  • Bendigo Health CAMHS
  • Goulburn Valley AMHS CAMHS
  • Grampians Area Mental Health Service
  • Latrobe Valley & Latrobe Regional Hospital Mental Health Services
  • Mildura Base Hospital CYMHS
  • North East Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (Wodonga)
  • South West Healthcare Mental Health Services

Relevant audience

Professionals, including counsellors, therapists, case managers, team leaders and managers who are interested in understanding and/or applying an SST approach. This can either be applied in their individual clinical practice or as a treatment modality within their agency.

What is included in this training package?

This training package includes:

  1. SST-FCY self-paced online learning (approx. 5 hours)
  2. SST-FCY In Practice workshop (4 hours) -- 9:30am to 1:30pm, Thursday 7 November 2024 (delivered via Zoom)

Note: You must first complete your self-paced online learning before your In Practice workshop.

1. Single Session Thinking: Families with Children and Youth self-paced online learning

In SST-FCY, you will have the opportunity to learn to adapt SST principles to working with families with children, aged 5–17 years, who present with behavioural, social, and emotional difficulties. The content will draw on the current peer-reviewed research on childhood internalising and externalising conditions. On a practical level, this course shows ways in which you can incorporate a single session approach into family work with children present in the room.

You can expect interviews with leading family therapists and resources to help you implement these practices in your work. The program also features clinical insights from Karen Story and Dr. Paul Denborough, leading practitioners in this space.

On completion of your online learning, you will have an understanding of:
  • The foundations of SST
  • How to apply SST to work with families with children and youth
  • Use the mental health research evidence to support SST working with families
  • How to engage young people with SST-friendly strategies and resources
Course modules:

Module 1: Be introduced to SST and its underpinnings in family therapy and systems thinking, and learn about the rationale, family and service benefits, and evidence for SST FCY

Module 2: Build your foundations of SST FCY using Family Systems Theory and techniques, and develop the skills for applying SST to work with families in the childhood years

Module 3: Use the research evidence on childhood mental health disorders to support SST with families

Module 4: Learn to have meaningful engagement with children, adolescents and their families and pick up practical strategies and tools for working with them in a session

Module 5: Hear Bouverie therapists reflect on working with families with children and adolescents and find out how you can make the most of a single conversation

2. Single Session Thinking: Families with Children and Youth In Practice workshop

Thursday, 7 November 2024

9:30am to 1:30pm, delivered via Zoom

 

Single Session Thinking: Families with Children and Youth In Practice builds on the online self-paced module and is aimed to bring together concepts from working with the whole family with children and young people within a Single Session framework. This in practice component incorporates practicing single session principles and techniques for meaningful engagement of children and adolescents and how to make the space safe for all involved.

In attending your In Practice workshop, you will be able to:
  • Articulate what SST is and how it can be applied to your work with children aged 5–17 years and their families
  • Identify potential barriers and resources to support the integration of SST FCY principles into everyday practice
  • Demonstrate the use of a single session approach, attitudes and skills in your work with children and families
Workshop style

This is a practice-focused workshop. Emphasising the direct ‘clinician–client’ relationship, it will recap key points from the self-paced course and guide you through experiential activities to embed SST into your own practice with children aged 5–17 years and their families. There will be small group practice activities using a range of reflective processes and case discussions.

Registration & Accessing your online learning

You can register for this training package by pressing "Register Now" below. Please note the workshop details before registering.

Once registered you will receive an automated email containing instruction on how to access the prerequisite self-paced online learning.

If you require any assistance with this process, please get in touch at bouverie.training@latrobe.edu.au. 

Key facts

Course category
The Bouverie Centre
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Duration
5 hours self-paced online learning + 4 hours live workshop
Prerequisite/s
To attend your workshop you must first complete the included self-paced online learning
Certification
Certificate of Completion

Contact The Bouverie Centre

If you have any questions about this course, or are curious about our other courses and workshops, please get in touch at bouverie.training@latrobe.edu.au, thank you.

You can browse our list of professional development courses and workshops here and see what is coming up on our calendar here.

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