PSY95003A - Advanced Clinical Elective: Interventions With Adolescents

(3 units)

Focus is on the systemic influences and context in which adolescents live and thrive, while attending to the individual changes and experiences occurring within the adolescent. Students learn how to evaluate adolescents and their families for treatment, how to decide on the most appropriate interventions and how to implement these interventions within the context of physical, emotional, social, cognitive, family, peer and school systems across these three stages: early, middle and late adolescence. This is an interactive and experiential course. Students are expected to participate in roleplays, practice interventions, provide supportive feedback to their classmates and be willing to explore, disclose and integrate their own experiences as an adolescent into what they learn in this course.