Event Date02 May 2024 | 13:30 PM-17:00 PM [GMT+10]
CPD Hours3.5
CPD CategoryCategory 2: Skills and Knowledge
OrganiserAASW Training ([email protected])
Event FormatOn-Demand
Practice & careerMental Health
Event Date02 May 2024 | 13:30 PM-17:00 PM [GMT+10]
CPD Hours3.5
CPD CategoryCategory 2: Skills and Knowledge
OrganiserAASW Training ([email protected])
Event FormatOn-Demand
Practice & careerMental Health
Live Online Workshop
Capability: Evolving and Established
Working adjacent to environments with young people and adults (e.g., supported residential care), people and organisations can present in ways that are barriers to obtaining connection. This can be due to us or the people we support. It impacts both the supported persons abilities to live their best lives but also influences their team’s ability to support them.
Often, social workers are a focal point for building changes for the individual and their teams, leaning into areas such as
-Transactional interactions
-Overt hostility (and the reasons this as an approach can work for people as a self-protection mechanism)
-How to approach challenging situations with a different lens and wider view
- our own indicators of a “pending stop ahead” for us as individuals (fatigue, transference, a flashing light).
We have all met that client or organisation, the one that people say won’t engage with anyone (or engages too much!), the one who is too difficult, who people sigh when they are mentioned, or worse, don’t mention at all.
We have all had the sinking feeling of helplessness, hopelessness that can turn to anger and fatigue. It doesn’t matter if we have just jumped on the train or if we have been on it for many years. There's still something to learn on the journey.
This workshop aims to provide social workers with a range of engagement strategies when supporting young people and adults with combined and complex
presentations. This is done by understanding the context of the behaviour, environment, senses, trauma, and protective features.
Understanding our role at the train station and the passengers on our journey with us, goes some way toward building new destinations and healthier journeys.
Every trip on the train is a little different, and the supplies we need in our backpack, might vary from trip to trip. Fundamentally though, many of these supplies might originate from similar sources.
It’s just how we use them that changes and knowing what to take in and put out at each stop can change the outcomes of our interventions and having the confidence to be able to make that call, can change the whole feel of our trip.
Who should attend?
Early to advanced career social workers. Social workers in statutory aligned organizations or NGO’s who work in partnership with these organizations. This presentation will give you an alternate perspective on working with complexity and some insight into areas of future learning.
Learning Outcomes
• To provide language working alongside people who use these behaviours to understand themselves.
• To build on existing engagement strategies and develop understanding of messaging that is often misunderstood.
• To recognise the challenges experienced by workers/organizations and how this may impact their work.
AASW Credential: Mental Health
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