Posts Tagged ‘child and adolescence’
Child and Adolesence Training
Child and Adolescence Training is a relatively new Training in the United Kingdom. Indeed when I looked up Child and Adolescence training in Google there were not that many Trainings to be found, most were in London, Manchester, and in Leeds.
I have always been interested in the world of Child and Young people in terms of Psychological Assessment, Methodology, and Theory. I however was trained in Adult Psychotherapy, not in the specialist area of Child and Adolescent training. Though in my Adult training in Psychotherapy I did learn a Child developmental model that was mainly Transactional Analysis influenced.
Later in my training I learnt more Child Therapy oriented models, mostly however from a Psychodynamic stand point.
My wife is a Child and Adult Psychotherapist, and with some other Child and Adolescent Therapists she has created a website ,www. child therapy world.com where she has advertised some of her training’s in the area of Child and Adolescent work. Also Karen Burke and Amanda Phillips have joined her in developing new courses in the area of Children and young people, Education, and Adoption.
The Child in Adolescence Training has become a new Department for the Manchester Institute of Psychotherapy ,and we are now offering Certificates and Diplomas in this division.
We are also offering specialist courses in Adoption training, Educational CPD workshops, and of course, the four-year Diploma. I personally think that it is really important to consider how we become the way we are, and that we reflect on the influence of our Childhood, and how is carried into the present.
The more we study, reflect, and inform ourselves about the developmental milestones that children, and young people go through within their journey to Adulthood, the more we will be able to help them today, and in their future challenges.
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Bob Cooke 2013
The moral life of babies
We tend to think of newborn babies or very young babies as a blank canvas and it is the job of parents and other people around them to teach them about the difference between good and bad, how to be kind and think of others.
There has been recent research to suggest that this is not the case. The building blocks of compassion, empathy and moral reasoning are actually in place from birth.
The researchers carried out a number of experiments to investigate these factors. They discovered that one year olds will come to the help of strangers who are struggling and that they are also able to have sophisticated reasoning of good and bad.
This article is really worth a read and it has the links embedded into it of clips of a number of the experiments that were carried out. Fascinating!
How ‘impermanence’ can help us all get along
When you think about yourself what categories do you class yourself as falling into. The straightforward ones come to mind like male or female, your religion or the language you speak? We learn very early on in childhood how we fit into these groups and it continues on into adulthood how we perceive our identities.
A new study at Stanford University and the University of Waterloo has reported that we are more likely to judge other people negatively if they don’t share our identity. If however people are reminded that our perception of permanence of our identities is open to adjustment then it can lead to people living more peacefully with each other.
An interesting article that has significant implications. Why not take a look?
How ‘impermanence’ can help us all get along – Ideas – The Boston Globe.
Losing Is Good for You
This article may divide opinion but the author does have a point here and argues it convincingly. Ashley Merryman suggests if your child is joining a sports club this season then one question to bear in mind is; ”which children get awards?” If the answer is ”Everybody gets a trophy” then Ashley suggests you spend time to find another program.
The author Ashley Merryman and Po Bronson have spent years reporting on the effects of praise and rewards on children. They say the science is clear. Awards can be powerful motivators, but nonstop recognition does not inspire children to succeed. Instead, it can cause them to underachieve.
Mahler”s Stages of Child Development
Mahler”s Stages of Child Development – Description of seperation individuation process
Parents’ Yelling Is as Harmful as Hitting.
A recent american study of nearly a thousand families has found that parents who shout at their adolescent children for misbehaving can cause some of the same problems as hitting them would, including increased risk of depression and aggressive behaviour.
The study found that although parents thought that yelling at their teenagers would get them to listen and behave, the opposite was actually found to be true and it even made the behaviour worse in some cases. The closeness of the relationship between parent and child also did not seem to negate the effect of shouting at the teenager.
Dr Wang co-author on the study explains why shouting is so detrimental to young teenagers: “Adolescence is a very sensitive period when [kids] are trying to develop their self-identities. When you yell, it hurts their self image. It makes them feel they are not capable, that they are worthless and are useless.”
Parents’ Yelling Is as Harmful as Hitting, Study Finds – WSJ.com.
The Child and Adolescence Certificate course—part two
In this Second video, which carries on from the earlier video in this series ,about the workings of the Child and Adolescent Certificate,Karen Burke and Stephanie Cooke ,talk about the final modules within the course. They explain the content and experiential process within these final modules.
The certificate in Child and Adolescent’s is, as mentioned above, towards by Stephanie Cooke and Amanda Phillips and is a popular course at the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy, it is taught over six modules over four days.