Working with young people with complex needs
Course overview:
Young people face unique stresses, pressures and transitions that are reflected in their experience of substance misuse, offending and mental health problems. This course establishes the key issues in adolescent development as a backdrop to understanding how young people experience problems differently to adults and how they cluster to create highly predictive pathways into difficulty. Drawing on robust and compelling development psychology research throughout, this course will offer young people’s workers a deep understanding of adolescent complexity and offer practical tailored interventions to help young people.
Aim(s):
To understand the complexity of how young people experience problems, and develop tailored interventions to reduce difficulties.
Objectives:
By the end of the course participants will have had opportunities to:
- Explore adolescent development in context of the life course
- Identify specific sub-populations of adolescent difficulty and their predicted trajectories
- Discuss how to screen and assess the unique facets of adolescent problems
- Evaluate appropriate treatment responses depending upon the young person’s specific developmental needs
- Provide a range of practical interventions to reduce young people’s difficulties
Maximum group size: 16
Online course - delivered over Zoom.
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Phil Harris
Phil Harris has worked in the drug misuse, mental health and homeless field for over 30 years as a practitioner, trainer and manager. He has managed a wide range of teams including family services, young people, dual diagnosis & personality disorders and substance misuse.
He is a visiting lecturer at a number of universities and was advisor to the US BICEP programme. He was also an advisor for the World Health Organisation in the Balkans region. He has designed treatment services across the UK for both addictions, young people and mental health, pioneering new approaches which have set new benchmarks for treatment outcomes.
He has written over 20 scholarly articles on effective practice and has published five books on substance misuse, treatment effectiveness, family and young people with complex needs.
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