Training
Overview of Professional Training
BTS offers training in several areas of practice. BTS staff have a focus on family interventions, solution focussed therapeutic styles and collaborative problem solving strategies and the context of serious and challenging behaviours. BTS is continually considering and developing training packages providing unique learning opportunities for social workers, psychologists, welfare workers, teachers and family workers to expand on skills in working with dangerous and challenging behaviours in light of family dynamics, domestic violence, behaviour disorders and difficulties and mental health issues. BTS provides training in the form of professional workshops (one or two days) and short seminars (a few hours) with a practice focus on managing challenging and serious behaviours collaboratively and solution focussed intervention styles.
Participants said:
"Great to practice with role plays not just read them on a board."
"It really got me to think about the details and implications for the future, not just the crisis intervention nature of the work we do."
"Through the role plays and discussion I could experienced more of the clients perspective and what this might mean for them."
Managing Challenges Collaboratively
(2 day workshop)
Contact to register / enquiries:
Training offered in partnership with Sector Connect.
Please call Jane McIvor at Sector Connect on (02)4648 5933 for further information.
Next Session:
Upon Demand
Course Summary
2 day workshop with Dr Steven Walker, Brief Therapy Solutions.
This frequently requested two day workshop explores the nature of challenging behaviours including ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder in children and adolescents. Participants will have the opportunity to consider child development, parenting styles, child temperament and social influences that impact upon and maintain problem behaviours.
Participants will explore:
Impacts on child development that include attachment problems, mental health, genetics, domestic violence and substance use on child behaviour
The impact of parenting styles on a child’s long term coping capacity
The emergence and escalation of child social and emotional deficits and the relationship to behaviour disorders
The nature of and definition of child disruptive behaviour disorders
Strategies to reduce the impact of and teach new skills to family’s experiencing challenging behaviours
Looking Through the Telescope
(2 day workshop)
Contact to register / enquiries:
Training offered in partnership with Sector Connect
Please call Jane McIvor at Sector Connect on (02)4648 5933 for further information.
Next Session:
Upon Demand
Course Summary
2 day workshop with Dr Steven Walker, Brief Therapy Solutions
This two day highly interactive workshop will provide the opportunity for participants to interact with aspects of a child’s life from birth to 18 years through the lens of child protection and child development The workshop will also explore elements of early intervention, child development and family dynamics, their impact on family life and the development of long term serious challenging behaviours in children
Participants will explore:
Impacts on child development that include attachment problems, mental health, genetics, domestic violence and substance use
The impact of parenting styles on a child’s long term coping capacity
The emergence and escalation of child social and emotional deficits
Early intervention, cumulative risk and child protection
Challenging Behaviours The relationship between individuals, parenting and their environment
Brief Solution Focussed Therapy in the Real World
(2 day workshop)
Contact to register / enquiries:
Training offered in partnership with Sector Connect
Please call Jane McIvor at Sector Connect on (02)4648 5933 for further information.
Next Session:
Upon Demand
Course Summary
2 day workshop with Dr Steven Walker, Brief Therapy Solutions
This is a two day workshop utilizing discussion, presentation and role play. The workshop will cover the development and theories behind BSFT as well as the model in practice. In addition recent research will be explored on participants experiences, the approach used in family services and feedback on:
What works?
What elements are useful?
What clients take with them and what they actually seem to use?
Participants will explore:
The approach of BSFT
Application and approach
The limitations of using BSFT
Where BSFT fits in regarding the field of counselling and research
Children, Coping and Attachment - Issues and Interventions
(1 day introduction coming soon)
Contact to register / enquiries:
Training offered in partnership with Sector Connect.
Please call Jane McIvor at Sector Connect on (02)4648 5933 for further information.
Next Session:
Upon Demand
Course Summary
1 day workshop with Dr Steven Walker, Brief Therapy Solutions
This one day introduction explores the nature of child and adolescent behaviour and the relationship to development, co-occurring mental health issues and attachment as a fundamental framework to coping well. Participants will examine the theoretical and practical issues surrounding children with behaviours issues that may be grounded in attachment based skill deficits. Participants will consider their own view of and strategies to enhance and interact with these complex and confronting behaviours.
Participants will explore:
Basics of attachment styles and some perspectives on affect dysregulation
Child behaviour and coping in relation to the immediate environment
Child mental health, trauma, attachment and co-existing issues
Strategies for supporting the development of attachment in direct practice and with families