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The Adolescent
Mind is a workshop for anyone working or living with teens,
particularly at-risk or high-risk youth. The format can be
delivered in it's original 24-hour package, or it can be scaled down to
9-12 hours for a two day presentation.
Parents, probation
officers, teachers, foster parents, trainers, and anyone else who works
with adolescents would benefit from this workshop.
Listed below is a
brief synopsis of the Adolescent Mind workshop. |
Basically, the Adolescent Mind is
about adolescence in general and adolescents in particular.
The History of Adolescence and the
State of the Adolescent Nation:
 | Adolescence in general, or what's normal anyway?
This component includes a fascinating look at how older cultures have dealt
successfully with adolescence and adolescents throughout history and across
the globe, as well as a clear and disturbing look at the negative statistics
surrounding our modern Western youth. We'll also learn about the lost
practices of Initiation and Rites of Passage in our country, and see how the
classic Hero's Journey model can be used as a simple treatment model. |
Adolescent Development:
| After seeing how teens have been throughout
history in a multitude of settings and cultures, we start to distinguish
between what is to be expected of modern teens versus what cultural/societal
issues they are responding to. |
Communication Skills:
| What teens are trying to say, as well as how we can
or should respond to them. We also look at the myriad of techniques
and tricks they use to manipulate adults with to get what they want,
including emotional blackmail, denial, magical thinking, and threats. |
Family Roles:
| We begin with a look at birth order characteristics,
laying down a broad foundation for the way people tend to be based on the
order they come into a family. Then we look at what happens in a
dysfunctional family, and how that dysfunction alters the existing roles
into a negative flavor. Family guilt, loyalty issues and generational
patters are discussed. |
Behavior Management:
| After studying teen behavior in the first course
components, we begin to narrow down on tools and tips for adults dealing
with teens. We look at what works, or doesn't work, and why.
Workshop participants will be given a wide array of approaches to affect
behavior change, improve supervision and control abilities, and to improve
personal boundaries. |
Anger Management:
| We'll learn to recognize escalating behavior and
what can be done to reduce the risk of youth "going off" or
"flashing." Appropriate venting, journaling anger patterns,
and learning how to avoid having your buttons pushed will be explored. |
Drugs and Alcohol:
| We'll look at why youth are so anxious to escape or
avoid daily life, how drugs affect developmental growth, and why many drug
treatments and therapies are not working. |
Gangs:
| We'll look at the roles that gangs fill for our
youth and why gangs remain successful. We'll look in depth at the
multitude of ways kids directly and indirectly associate with gangs, how
they show gang loyalty, disrespect other gangs through written and spoken
language, the ethical shifts common to gang members. |
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