Kirrilie is a clinical psychologist and the director of Innovate Psychology and Education. She has specialised in working with teenagers for the last 12 years and has counselled many hundreds of individual young people as well as provided seminars for more than 10,000 young people in schools across Australia. She has written a book called “The Years that Count” which is a guide for adults in helping students through Year 11 and 12, which was presented at a national adolescent health conference and has sold out on its first two print runs.
http://www.innovateonline.net/
(Saturday 2:00pm-3:15pm)
This session includes ideas on helping teens to open up, getting teens re-engaged with life activities, understanding cycles of depression and anxiety, facilitating communication with troubled teens, and working alongside and in partnership with professional counselors.
(Saturday 4:00pm-5:15pm)
This looks at the key developmental (eg cognitive and emotional functioning) differences between teenagers and adults, as well as the key generational differences between teens in 2009 and teens in 1989. With these two sets of differences in mind, this elective then covers how best to communicate with young people.
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