Live Virtual Workshops

Challenging Behaviours in Youth

Strategies for Intervention

April 02, 2025
(09:00 AM - 04:00 PM CDT )
$329.00 (regular rate)
$299.00 (*early rate)
Location: Online Virtual
*early rate expires 03/13/2025
6
Continuing Education
Credit Hours (CEC)

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Challenging Behaviours in Youth - April 2, 2025; 9am-4pm Central Time

Early rate expires 03/12/2025

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For those who work with youth, managing challenging behaviours that interfere with development, learning, or success can be both frustrating and exhausting. This workshop explores behaviours related to aggression, resistance, and connection-seeking, along with practical intervention strategies you can use in your own work with youth.

You will have the opportunity to analyze your current approach to challenging behaviours, so you can gain insight into what is happening when attempts at intervention do not work. A framework will be provided with guidelines for structuring interactions for positive outcomes using a leadership, guidance, and mentorship model.  This workshop will involve interactive opportunities for practicing the skills learned, so you can confidently apply them in your context.

Please note: This workshop does not provide training for clinical therapy or review clinical conditions that may lead to challenging behaviours.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion, participants should be able to:

  • Recognize the function of challenging behaviours
  • Apply a coaching framework for behaviour change
  • Evaluate their current intervention style
  • Apply a framework for behaviour change
  • Support children and youth in managing challenging behaviours

Method of Delivery

Presentation, video, case study exercises, experiential practice, personal reflection, delivered electronically.

*Please allow only the registered individual(s) to view the materials.

Some of the Topics Included

  • What is Challenging Behaviour?
  • Your Response and the Role of Empathy
  • When Challenging Behaviour Escalates
  • Coaching and Providing Direction
  • Finding Your Interaction Style
  • Positioning Yourself to Coach
  • Behaviour Guidance Strategies
  • A Coaching Model for Challenging Behaviours
  • Managing Aggressive Behaviours
  • Strategies for Noncompliance Behaviours
  • Working with Attention Seeking Behaviours

Target Audience

This is an introductory level workshop intended for school personnel, social service professionals, support workers, parents, and anyone working with children and youth who exhibit challenging behaviours.

Terms & Conditions

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Trainer: Patricia Habermann

RPC, ACC

Patricia is Métis and was born, raised, and resides on Treaty 1 Territory. She is a registered counsellor who incorporates evidence-based, person centered, trauma-informed, experiential approaches, and laughter as medicine into her work. She supports youth in child welfare as their therapist, mentor, advocate, and soft place to land when life gets hard. Patricia is also an instructor with Yellowquill University College in various programs for First Nations students. Patricia holds certification from the Applied Counselling Program at the University of Manitoba, with specialization in addictions. She is also a focusing-oriented therapist who attends to complex trauma. Patricia practices traditional Indigenous teachings and consults with community Elders for guidance. Her passion for stories, wholehearted connections, relationships, and exploring how trauma lives in the body is evident in her ongoing curiosity in the way she walks with people. She is devoted to walking alongside and sharing space with individuals on their healing journey in a holistic and compassionate manner as she believes that healing is an “inside job.”

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