A Series of Workshops Dealing with Adolescent Mental Health Issues and Basic Counselling
First Aiders save many lives in the world every day, the ability to provide basic CPR to a person having a heart attack, enables the Cardiologist to perform their role as a specialist. Every Educator should have the basic skills to provide Emotional First Aid when needed in an emergency and then refer to a professional. These workshops provide those skills.
Following the fantastic response from schools after having purchased our training series on Child Protection, it is with pleasure that we release our new training package – “Emotional First Aid for Educators”. For only R1,995-00 your school will receive:
- Four X 45 Minute Training Videos with Workbooks
- Memorandum: The Guide to Basic Counselling and dealing with Trauma in the School Environment and Barriers to Learning – Dealing with Anxiety and Depression in the Classroom
- SACE accredited certificate (CPTD allocation/Type 3/5 Points/ Leadership and Management.) per workshop completed
Use these products to train at staff meetings, staff development days or let each member of staff work through them at their own leisure. There is no expiry date, you own the rights to these products.
INTRODUCTION
Recent studies have found that 24% of South African youngsters surveyed between Grade 5 to Grade 11 had experienced feelings of depression, hopelessness and sadness, while a further 21% had attempted suicide at least once. These studies also state that among school-attendees aged 10 to 15, showed that adolescents experienced a high prevalence of depression (41%), anxiety (16%) and PTSD (21%).
Educators are expected to deal with many of these issues with very little formal counselling or trauma training. A caring Educator can transform the school experience, especially for learners who face enormous home difficulties. The basic ability to counsel, listen, guide and refer when necessary, can transform a learners life forever.
This series of workshops with John Buswell will empower Educators to understand how anxiety, depression and trauma effects learners, identify the presenting symptoms and be able to provide basic counselling to both learners and colleagues. An educator with counselling and communication skills enhances the schools professionalism, affirms a learners dignity and helps develop trusting relationships in times of crises.
Understanding and dealing with Anxiety in the classroom (Duration 45 Minutes)
- Defining Anxiety Disorder
- Symptoms of Adolescent Anxiety Disorder
- Assisting the learner in the classroom
- Working with the child’s family
- The side effects of prescribed medication
An introduction to trauma (Duration 45 Minutes)
- An introduction to bereavement
- Understanding the grief process
- Definition of trauma
- Types of trauma
- Phases of trauma
- Identifying symptoms presented in the classroom from Gr R – Gr 12
- Long term effects of a traumatic experience on childhood development
An introduction to basic counselling (Duration 45 Minutes)
- Defining counselling
- The goals and aims of counselling
- The do’s and don’ts
- Counselling ethics and values
- Sympathy, identification and empathy
Basic counselling (Duration 45 Minutes)
- Counselling frameworks
- Stages of counselling
- Body language
- Process of the counselling model
- Using questions effectively
- Problems in questioning
- Dealing with the child’s parent or care giver
