A Clinician’s Guide to Working with Children Faced with Mental Health Problems (FULL COURSE)

1 Video
3 Ceu's Package, Jenny Perkel, Clinical Psychologist and Author of Children in Mind and Babies in Mind

LEARN:

• How to recognize and avoid common clinical mistakes therapists make

• How to improve the outcome of your therapeutic work

• The importance of transference

• The importance of the paternal function

• What really makes therapy work?

• How things often go wrong in the therapy process

• How to preserve yourself as a clinician

• How to provide a therapeutic intervention that is more beneficial to your patients

WHO WILL BENEFIT:

Mental health practitioners including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, therapists and counsellors.

1 Video
3 Ceu's Package, Jenny Perkel, Clinical Psychologist and Author of Children in Mind and Babies in Mind

LEARN ABOUT:

• Finding the meaning in symptoms

• Defense mechanisms

• Working with parents

• Development and change - in childhood, theory and practice

• Keeping up to date with new knowledge and research

• Holding an open mind about different paradigms and other theoretical and explanatory models

1 Video
3 Ceu's Package, Jenny Perkel, Clinical Psychologist and Author of Children in Mind and Babies in Mind

LEARN ABOUT:

• How common are childhood mental disorders today?
  
  
• Is childhood psychiatric diagnosing increasing?
  
  
• Current trends in childhood psychopathology
  
  
• ADHD children:  labelling and the use of medication
  
  
• Gender identity and psychodiagnostics

• When childhood psychiatric diagnosis is not the answer

WHO WILL BENEFIT:

Psychologists, mental health practitioners, health professionals, educators

1 Video
3 Ceu's Package, Jenny Perkel, Clinical Psychologist and Author of Children in Mind and Babies in Mind

Recent research shows that mental health (emotions, behaviour and personality) are influenced by genetics.

LEARN:

• About 'orchids and dandelions' and the latest research by Prof Jay Belsky and others about differential susceptibility to environmental influences. 

• Essential viewing for all those working with children, parents and mental health.

DISCOVER: 

The crucial way in which genetics and psychology interact.

WHO WILL BENEFIT:

Psychologists, mental health practitioners and anyone interested in infants and children.

1 Video
3 Ceu's Package, Jenny Perkel, Clinical Psychologist and Author of Children in Mind and Babies in Mind

LEARN:

• The value of primary infant mental health interventions.

• What's in the Babies in Mind workshops and ideas about group-work for new parents.

• How recent infant mental health research and psychoanalytic therapeutic approaches have contributed to the field.

• What Babies in Mind has taught us about infant mental health.

• About existing South African infant mental health initiatives, networks and training options.