Event Description:
The peer group is most important to adolescents. Group counseling allows adolescents to heal and transform their lives with peer support. Topics covered in this presentation include: how to prepare adolescents for group counseling, how to build group cohesion, stages of adolescent group development and the role of the group leader, how to avoid having your ‘buttons pushed’ when facilitating adolescent groups, managing group conflict, intervention strategies with challenging group members, the effective use of activities in adolescent groups.
By the end of this two-part workshop, you will be able to:
- Prepare adolescents for group counseling.
- Build group cohesion.
- Manage group conflict.
- Have effective intervention strategies with challenging group members.
- Utilize groups to help adolescents make positive life changes.
This is a two-day training. To receive a certificate of completion and CEUs, training participants must attend and adhere to the attendance policy both days.