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Events & conferences > MYD Seminar series > How to Raise Young Resilient Young People
How to Raise Resilient Young People
The Ministry of Youth Development hosted a series of workshops entitled 'How to Raise Resilient Young People'.
Dr Ken Ginsburg a renowned paediatrician specialising in adolescent
medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ran these
workshops to help adults who care for teenagers, including
professionals and parents, feel more comfortable with the
strengths-based approach to communications with adolescents.
Steeped in resilience theory, it focused on how to shift adolescents
toward positive behaviours and away from some of the quick fixes that
can be so dangerous.
Workshops were organised in collaboration with the New Zealand
Association for Adolescent Health and Development and the Ministry of
Youth Development.
Specific goals included:
- To learn how to create a zone of safety that clearly communicates to adolescents that we are trustworthy.
- To learn how to propel young people towards wiser decisions. This
starts by understanding that young people need confidence to change,
and that focusing on what they are doing wrong undermines their sense
of competency.
- To learn to facilitate adolescents' own wise decision-making. A
start is recognising that the typical model of adult
intervention-lecturing backfires.
- To learn to implement a stress reduction plan with children and
adolescents. Because stress is a driving force toward negative
behaviour, we wish to equip them with a wide repertoire of alternative
positive behaviours.
Workshops were in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in September 2007.
More Information
For more information on these workshops, email us at mydinfo@myd.govt.nz
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