CPD - WORKING WITH ADOLESCENTS Workshop led by Meera Kapadia This one-day course will be run on: Saturday, 20 March 2010

Adolescence is an important developmental stage, in the transition from childhood to adulthood, and there are many challenges and rewards during this process of identity formation. Adolescents can be challenging, difficult and/or rewarding as a client group.

During this day we will:

• Explore the therapist’s own adolescence, and how this may influence their work with this client group
• The adolescent as part of a system: family, peers and self, and the socio-political system
• Working with adolescents from various cultural backgrounds e.g. Unaccompanied minors
• Explore the specific challenges and service provision issues involved in working with Young People
• Predominant Clinical issues in working with adolescents
• Therapeutic relationship issues in working with young people

Teaching methods include a lecture, case studies, discussion, experiential exercises.

About the Tutor

Meera Kapadia is a BACP Accredited and UKCP Registered Integrative Psychotherapist with over fifteen years experience in the field. She provides therapy in Gujarati, Hindi and English. She works as an Adolescent Psychotherapist for TLZ Young People’s Counselling and Psychotherapy Service, CAMHS, NHS, with fourteen to twenty one year olds, and has a specialist remit to help Young Asian People access Counselling and Psychotherapy. She also works in private practice as a Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer. She is also a Visiting lecturer at Regents College. She is particularly interested in adapting Western psychological theory to different cultural groups. To this end, she worked in India to distinguish universal counselling tenets from culturally relative counselling tenets. She worked with earthquake survivors in rural India and has published articles about these experiences: C PJ (July and December 2001), Eistach (2002). More recently she has facilitated a workshop at the 2007 BACP Annual Conference, and also facilitated a workshop at the International Association of Counselling IAC Annual Conference in Malta in July 2008. She has also published an article in the July 2008 Therapy Today (BACP journal), on cross cultural issues.

Time

10am to 5pm

Date

Saturday, 20th March 2010

Cost

£95 non members
£85 Minster Members

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