This webinar will overview the importance of worker wellbeing, and consider ways organisations and individuals can foster workplace wellbeing and practice self-care to foster the resilience and energy essential for supporting others.
Dr Sue Bagshaw shares insights on the developing brain of young people, Psychologist Simi Desor shares tools to support positive youth development in uncertain times and Dr. Annie Horton shares research relating to the wellbeing of young people today.
Understanding disordered eaitng and eating disorders; Thinking about eating - sorting out fact from fiction; Working with family/whānau; Treatment options
This session explores psychosis - What is psychosis, Psychosis experiences in children and adolescent, intervention, why does psychosis develop? Recovery and wellbeing following psychosis, early intervention for first episode psychosis
This presentation explores drivers of picky eating, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, dynamics that maintain restricted eating pattern, barriers to changing patterns and strategies for encouraging children to experience new foods.
This workshop will equip you with: An understanding adolescent brain development; Why HEEADSSSSS is an essential tool to use in youth health; Skills to conduct a HEEADSSSSS assessment.
This workshop discusses research about suicide and provides tools to identify people who may be suicidal. Also covered: Sleep deprivation as a risk for suicide, childhood and inter-generational trauma, cluster effect, same day crisis and instant suicides.
This workshop explores the importance of sleep and looks at some basic sleep hygiene and sleep difficulty interventions.
This presentation focuses on key concepts underpinning attachment and includes a general overview of attachment, some information on assessment and on the impacts of attachment on development.
Session themes: 1) Introducing ambivalence, 2) A motivational approach, 3) Know your righting reflex, 4) Practice
This workshop explores the online porn landscape and NZ young people's consumption, behaviours and experiences of porn and the impacts on sexual attitudes, behaviours, health and wellbeing. Also discussed is porn literacy tools and NZ support services.
Topics covered (part 1):• Understanding what ADHD is and how it presents in the child – how the world works for these children• Support strategies for working with the ADHD child• Tailoring your environment to prevent the frustration and anxiety build up.
Topics covered:• Managing asthma attacks, allergies and allergic reactions• Epi-pen use and management• Managing a seizure or partial seizure• The diabetic child• Choking• Treating bee-stings / insect bites• Head injuries, broken bones and bleeding
Topics module 1- What is autism?- A nonlinear spectrum- Executive functioning- Theory of Mind- Managing autism and anxiety. Topics module 2- Sensory difficulties – adjusting the environment to be autism friendly- Stimming- Meltdowns vs tantrums
Learn practical strategies for helping teens with ADHD to succeed in school. Topics covered: ADHD and changes in the teenage brain, medication, strategies for positive change, dealing with emotions, adjusting our expectations, allowing for independence
Based on actual experiences with young people who have been extremely excited, rowdy, defiant and inspiring, this workshop reframes how we respond to behaviours that challenge us, with a fundamentally strengths-based approach.
This talk focusses on understanding the stress response system in young people, recognising environments that activate the stress response system and the ongoing effects and positively effecting behaviour change and calm in young people
Delivered with honesty, sensitivity, and sometimes humour, Francis discusses psycho-therapeutic techniques that can pull young people back from the brink. It focuses on what you can do to make a difference.
Gain a basic understanding of anxiety and how it relates to children. Learn how to support parents/workers with anxious children to feel confident and competent to manage anxious behaviours in a way that promotes the child’s bravery and wellbeing.
This training explores the importance of fostering resilience in young people. Practical skills are shared through 3 activities within resilience training 1. Make Me Resilient, 2. Real Stress Management Skills, 3. Making Difficult Conversations Easier.
Learn about the importance of Attachment, how to identify patterns in children and develop a framework for working with Attachment needs in practice. Also emphasised is the need for reflective practice in relation to Attachment Theory principles.
In this session we consider the complex interplay of biological and environmental processes which contribute to the emergence, progression and improvement of mental health issues in adolescence.
Hear insights Christian Gallen has gained about current trends and research into the topic of pornography, how it may be affecting young people and what helpful messages and support youth organisations could offer.
Hear the latest research in effective suicide prevention, where and how to help someone, misconceptions, impacts of sleep deprivation, how to address suicide safely with young people, how to support young people if there has been a death by suicide.
This webinar covers the relationship between sleep and wellbeing, bullying, metal illness, suicide, memory, self-esteem. IIt also looks at different sleeping patterns and problems and provides strategies to teach young people to sleep better.
Building on a model of youth wellbeing developed during a study of NZ High School students, this webinar explores different angles people working with and for young people can take are explored to support healthy development and wellbeing.
This talk focusses on impacts of sexual violence on a young person's life, how best to support from within a youth worker role, discuss the importance of boundaries and self care when doing this work, and how to work alongside families where appropriate.
Simi and Annie explore positive youth development in times of uncertainty, and insights about current research on what wellbeing for young people means. They also provide a framework for youth wellbeing and strategies to support young people's wellbeing
In this workshop participants will learn practical strategies to effectively respond to children and teens with anxiety and ways to capture the powerful buffering role school can play in strengthening all young people against anxiety at school and beyond.
This webinar helps participants to recognise anxiety disorders in children and adolescents by exploring signs of anxiety, where they come from, why they exist and provides a range of practical and powerful intervention techniques
This webinar covers: What self-harm is, why young people do it, when someone needs medical attention, why self-harm is considered a contagious behaviour, when self-harm turns into suicide, and addresses common misconceptions of “seeking attention”