Adolescent Development and Risk Taking Behaviour
Tuesday 5 May,9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
🏷️ £90-180, with additional tickets from £45
🎧 All practitioners working with children, young people or vulnerable individuals, DSL/DSO, DDSL, Safeguarding Manager/Lead, Governors, Trustees.
📍 Online
🎥 Watch live or on catch up
Course outline:
This webinar will consider risk taking behaviours in adolescents, including why they take risks, and what forms these risk taking behaviours can take. This webinar is suitable for anyone who works with children and young people and will increase understanding of teenage development and how to look past behaviour at what might be underlying and driving it.
Training topics will include:
- An introduction to mental health and wellbeing, with specific focus on adolescents
- Looking at teenage brain development and how this might impact behaviour
- Focus on what causes concern and risk-taking behaviour, with an emphasis on practical ideas and strategies to support young people
Learning outcomes:
- Increased understanding of teenage brain development
- Increased understanding of risk-taking behaviour and what causes it, in adolescents
- Practical ideas and strategies for supporting young people in their development.
