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

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.

• 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

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.

• 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

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.