This training workshop is open to those offering supervision to counsellors/psychotherapists working with adolescent clients. The course will address the principal therapeutic considerations specific to working with this age group including how the adolescent’s developmental limitations and evolving capacity for contact shapes the therapeutic field. We will also examine transference issues specific to the adolescent process, together with the dynamics which emerge through parental involvement in the work.
In addition, case management dilemmas will be identified and explored including assessment, multi-disciplinary contact, child protection, legal
and ethical issues pertaining to the work. Learning style will include didactic input, experiential component, demonstration, and practicum work.
Dates: Friday 1st June 2018
Time: 10 am – 5 pm
Venue: Dublin Counselling & Therapy Centre,
41 Upper Gardiner St, Dublin 1
Fee: €120.00
For information and booking please email Bronagh: bronaghstarrs@gmail.com
About The Presenter:
Bronagh Starrs is Founder & Director of Blackfort Adolescent Gestalt Institute and Programme Director for the MSc Adolescent Psychotherapy in Dublin Counselling & Therapy Centre. She maintains a private practice in Omagh, Northern Ireland, as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, writer, and trainer, specialising in working with adolescents. Bronagh is an adolescent development specialist and has considerable experience teaching and presenting throughout Ireland and internationally on the developmental implication of trauma on the adolescent journey. She has authored numerous articles and chapters on the subject. Her new book on adolescent psychotherapy will be published this year.