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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.
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Basically, the Adolescent Mind
is about adolescence in general and adolescents in particular.
The History of Adolescence and
the State of the Adolescent Nation:
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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:
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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
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Communication Skills:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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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