This training is for all practitioners across the service who work with challenging and vulnerable adolescents.

What is the aim of the training?
The purpose of this training is to bring professionals together to explore ideas and strategies for working with this very challenging group of young people. The course provides a challenge to the approach of managing adolescents through boundaries and managing anti-social behaviour by focusing not only on managing the external behaviour of the adolescent but understanding the ‘inside’ and the development journey of the adolescent.
What will the outcome of the training be?
By the end of the session participants will:-

• Draw on recent messages from serious case reviews and research in working with vulnerable and hard to help adolescents
• Be able to develop a current knowledge base on adolescent development
• Explore some of the changes and develop good practice skills
• Develop a more reflective and analytical approach in working with and engaging hard to help adolescents Understand professional expectations of parents when caring for a troubled adolescent
• Consider tools for practice, application to planning and building relationships, and use of professional network around the child/family

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