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Youth & Family Support Worker Certificate

The Youth & Family Support Worker Certificate is designed to familiarize students with the ability to recognize symptoms associated with the most frequently encountered issues in children and adolescents today. Evidence-based methods of cognitive and behavioral interventions will be reviewed and practiced in case studies.

Specific Objectives Include:

Overview of recent developments in cognitive-behavioral approaches to issues in children and adolescents.
Survey of most commonly encountered symptom complexes in children and adolescents.
Views of recognize contemporary experts on current evidence-based cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques best suited to specific psychopathologies.
Understanding of common childhood and adolescent issues.
Identification of scope of practice of support counsellors with issues with children and adolescents.
The ability to develop treatment plans using cognitive-behavioral interventions at appropriate levels for support counsellors.

Courses Include:

Personal & Professional Development of the Counsellor
Introduction to Family Counselling
Clinical Counselling Skills
Child & Adolescent Counselling
Listening, Asserting & Resolving Conflict
Substance Abuse Counselling
Loss & Grief Counselling
Case Study Approaches to Family Counselling

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Youth & Family Support Worker Certificate

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