Creative & Therapeutic Techniques for Working with Children and Teenagers Online (CPD)

Tutor: Mandy Jane Lynch
MSc Counselling, Dip.Cln(Hyp) MBACP

Cost: £59

This is an online CPD course in which you will be taught techniques and skills used for counselling children and teenagers. The online curriculum consists of 5 recorded classroom Zoom sessions, four Powerpoint presentations with links to numerous resources and demonstration videos. PDF downloads of the slideshares, and several other modules to read. All course details are given below after the enrolment process is explained.

You will have 180 days to complete the course from your enrolment date. The online course constitues 25 CPD hours

Need help? See videos at the bottom of this page or Email: enquiries@ukait.org

Curriculum

• Welcome & Introduction
• Why do kids and teens need therapy?
• What issues can therapy help kids and teens with?
• How kids and teens learn by doing and being creative?
• Aim to be PACEful when talking to a kid or teen

Creative Techniques to work with Kids up to the age of 11:

Creative grounding techniques including controlled breathing, artwork & ball exercise
Thoughts – Mind Magic – Child Mindfulness exercise to calm the mind
Feelings Candyland Game – Creative exercise for talking about and identifying emotions
Create and spin the wheel of coping skills!
Sand Tray Therapy – building a “Safe World” Exercise for all ages – to create scenes as projections of their inner experience, wishes, feelings, and/or past, present and future situations in their lives. Some therapists use sand trays to assess clients’ process, emotional feel, and functional age.
Magic Button Bear for processing negative thoughts, feelings and memories through surrogate tapping
Easy EMDR for Children using Finger Puppets and Wands for processing negative thoughts, feelings and memories

Creative Techniques to work with Teens:

Creative grounding techniques for Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Using Safe Place imagery and Storyboards to help for client to go deeper
Using fairytales in Therapy – discovering different parts
Helping teenagers talk about their lives using cards
Exploring anger and healthy options for moving forward using cards
Using Uno Game to identify copying skills
CBT Game – Problem Solving
Self-Injury vs self-healing journaling exercise
Body Image Exercise using pictures and writing
Creating a CD Cover Self-Esteem Exercise – “10 things I like about me” with music
Using Jenga Game to talk about Self-Image
Create a Transition Object / Book to provide psychological comfort
Metaphor Guided Meditation – suitable for all ages and inner child

If you wish to enrol on the course, simply click the ‘Take this Course‘ button and you will be directed to registration and payment. Once you have registered and made payment, you will be logged in and directed to your profile page, which contains the links to your course(s). You can do the course at your own pace and in your own time.

You will use the email address and password you created at registration as your login credentials for all subsequent access, so please make a note of them. Login page is: https://alc2alc.com/course-login/

Welcome from course director: Paul Henderson