Counselling for children and adolescents

1. Special features of counseling work with children and adolescents:
- factors of the child's development and learning;
- mental health of children and adolescents;
- distress of children and adolescents;
- protective factors in the lives of children and adolescents.

2. Counselling theories:
- particularities of individual and group counselling in some counselling theories.

3. Analysis of the counselling process:
- of course and objectives of the counseling conversation;
- of the position of the counsellor and counsellee in various counselling theories;
- of the counselling/collaborative relationship;
- use of counseling skills and techniques.

4. Individual and group counselling (curative and preventive) with children and adolescents who are faced with various problems growing up in the context of:
- different types of violence (peer violence, domestic violence, sexual harassment and violence, sexual abuse);
- problems in the family (divorce, poverty);
- drug abuse/addictive behavior of children and adolescents;
- death of a loved one and bereavement;
- suicidality and depression of young people;
- self-harm;
- sexual maturation, sexual behavior, sexual orientation, etc.;
- eating disorders;
- online violence and addiction.

5. Crisis intervention in school counseling work.

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