CPD Hours1.5 hrs
CPD CategoryCategory 2: Skills and Knowledge
OrganiserAASW National
Event FormatOn-Demand
Practice & careerMental Health, Graduate, Child, Youth & Family Services, Child Protection
CPD Hours1.5 hrs
CPD CategoryCategory 2: Skills and Knowledge
OrganiserAASW National
Event FormatOn-Demand
Practice & careerMental Health, Graduate, Child, Youth & Family Services, Child Protection
Member price: $90.00 including GST (member price will display once logged in)
Non-member price: $180.00 including GST
Effective communication with children and young people is an essential part of social work practice, whether at school, in the therapy room, or as part of the OOHC and child protection systems.
Social Workers are often required to have difficult conversations about complex and traumatic events in the lives of their youngest clients and have a responsibility to ensure these conversations are managed appropriately.
This webinar will support practitioners to have difficult conversations with children and young people by illuminating principles of practice they may utilise. The conversational style and approach presented in this webinar is designed to enhance effective engagement when having difficult conversations about issues that affect children and young people, or abusive actions they may have been subjected to.
We will explore why an anti-oppressive social works lens is important for building effective and collaborative relationships with children and young people. Flowing on from this, a number of conversational aids will be explored alongside discussion of their strengths and most effective uses.
Participants will then be introduced to the “ARMED” (Affect Regulation Model) approach to responding effectively to the range of emotions that children and young people may express.
"Brilliant. Fabulous wise presenter" – webinar participant, December 2022.
"Absolutely fantastic, bringing me back to my social work values and language" – webinar participant, December 2022.
Who should register? Social Workers and allied health professionals who work with children and young people, particularly in child protection and OOHC contexts, and would like to improve how they communicate with this demographic.
AASW Credentials: Mental Health; Child Protection
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
Presenter details
Mary Jo McVeigh is the founder and director of Cara House, “a place for healing, discovery and growth” and CaraCare charity; both which support vulnerable children, young people, and their families through trauma- specific counselling, group work and human rights practices. As a trauma therapist and an accredited mental health social worker with 35 years- experience.
Mary Jo has worked with children and families who have experienced child abuse, violence, and trauma by assisting them to tap into their own resilience and strengths, to look at how they have survived in the face of adversity.
Mary Jo has presented training seminars and conferences at a state, national and international level. She is a published author and has written and co-authored many journal articles in the field of child protection, trauma, and healing. She is enrolled in her PhD at University of Sydney. Mary Jo is teaching at an undergraduate and post-graduate level for the social work department and is also involved in national research projects.
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